Quotations About / On: BLUE

  • 41.
    So it's true: Being without Being is blue.
    (William Gass (b. 1924), U.S. fictionist, essayist, philosopher. On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, ch. 1, p. 12.)
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  • 42.
    the absolute flight and rest
    The universal blue
    And local green suggest.
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Middleness of the Road.")
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  • 43.
    So as to comprehend that the sky is blue everywhere one doesn't need to travel around the world.
    (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist. Wilhelm Meister's Travels, Reflections in the Spirit of the Travellers (1829).)
  • 44.
    The sheen of ocean gleams on the blue fish-plate.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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  • 45.
    ... picking the faded blue
    Of the last remaining aster flower
    To carry again to you.
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Late Walk.")
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  • 46.
    By the road to the contagious hospital
    under the surge of the blue
    mottled clouds driven from the
    northwest—a cold wind.
    (William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), U.S. poet. Spring and All (l. 1-4). . . The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams; Vol. 1, 1909-1939. A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan, eds. (1986) New Directions.)
  • 47.
    the stars turn slowly
    in the blue foil beside them
    like the eyes of a mild savior.
    (James Tate (b. 1943), U.S. poet. The Blue Booby (l. 39-41). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 48.
    If I a fancy take
    To black and blue,
    That fancy doth it beauty make.
    (Sir John Suckling (1609-1642), British poet, playwright. Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white (l. 14-16). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
  • 49.
    White plates and cups, clean-gleaming,
    Ringed with blue lines; and feathery, faery dust;
    (Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. The Great Lover (l. 27-28). . . Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
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  • 50.
    What did I do to be so black and blue?
    (Andy Razaf (1895-1993), U.S. songwriter. "Black and Blue," Hot Chocolates, Mills Music, Inc. (1929). Music composed by Thomas "Fats" Waller (1904-1943) and Harry Brooks (1895-1970).)
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