BLUE NOTES
'Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli' (Exodus 24:10) 'Dolce color d'oriental zaffiro' (Dante Alighieri) 'Un colore nobile, bello, il piu perfetto di tutti i colori' (Cennino Cennini, Il Libro dell'Arte) 'At last he rose and twitched his mantle blue, Tomorrow to fresh and pastures new' (John Milton) 'Within the circuit of this plodding life there enters moments of azure hue' (Henry David Thoreau) 'Tell me how far the morning leaps, Tell me what time the weaver sleeps Who spun the breadths of blue!' 'Nature rarer uses Yellow Than another Hue. Saves she all of that for Sunsets Prodigal of Blue' (Emily Dickinson) 'Oh never weep for love that's dead, since love is seldom true, but changes his fashion from blue to red from brightest red to blue' (Elizabeth Siddal) 'Blue! Gentle cousin of the forest-green, Married to green in all the sweetest flowers, Forget-me-not, the bluebell an...