“One by one the stars fell into the sea, the sky drained of its last lights.”
Albert Camus
more infosource: Notebook IX, in Albert Camus: Notebooks 1951–1959, trans. by Ryan Bloom (Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2008), 244.
category: dusk, light, night, ocean, sky, star
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“I think you would like the chestnut-tree I met in my walk. It hit my notice suddenly, and I thought the skies were in blossom.”
Emily Dickinson
more infosource: 1862 letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in Letters of Emily Dickinson, vol. 1 (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894), 308.
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category: chestnut, nature, sky, tree
medium: Letter
“The sky was peach and gold, a teacup of a morning, just enough clouds so as not to mock us.”
Elizabeth McCracken
more infosource: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008), 100.
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category: beautiful description, cloud, color, gold, peach, sky
medium: memoir
“The sky above us was going from musky yellow to purple. Colors of a cut plum, Mother said.”
Mary Karr
more infosource: The Liars’ Club (New York: Penguin Books, 2005), 10th anniversary edition, 319.
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category: color, nature, plum, sky
medium: memoir
“The green of the ice and water begins to be visible about half an hour before sunset. Is it produced by the reflected blue of the sky mingling with the yellow or pink of the setting sun?”
Henry David Thoreau
more infosource: The Journal 1837–1861 (New York: New York Review of Books, 2009), 539.
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category: blue, color, green, ice, nature, pink, sky, sun, sunset, yellow
medium: diary
notes: diary entry dated January 20, 1859
“Halfway up the slope, guarded by a group of tall, slim cypress trees, nestled a small strawberry-pink villa, like some exotic fruit lying in the greenery. The cypress trees undulated gently in the breeze, as if they were busily painting the sky a still brighter blue for our arrival.”
Gerald Durrell
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