The Muse of the Violets Quotes

“oh wind of the enormous sea
Whose sharp odor of salt revives the force in me,
Oh wind of the wide sea, carry sorrows away.”
― Renée Vivien, The Muse of the Violets: Poems

“My giddy soul is all perfumed
Of your flesh and white roses.”
― Renée Vivien, The Muse of the Violets: Poems

“in its velvet keep
Earth holds you; on your forehead violets weep.”
― Renée Vivien, The Muse of the Violets: Poems

“All is white where the moon pours her shower.
At her feet groans the tormented sea.
Serene, she sees solitude flower
In the night, and chastity.”
― Renée Vivien, The Muse of the Violets: Poems

“I listen, dreaming. Your refreshing voice
Runs like the water of a spring over moss”
― Renée Vivien, The Muse of the Violets: Poems

“You will never know how to tarnish the devotion
Of my passion for the beauty of women, that my verse
acclaims”
― Renée Vivien, The Muse of the Violets: Poems

“I love your carnal lips lingering
Still creased by kisses from before.”
― Renée Vivien, The Muse of the Violets: Poems

“I love sunset, the day dying bit by bit.
The fire, the monastic intimacy of a room
Where the lamps with veiled amber transparence
Redden the old bronze and blue the stoneware.”
― Renée Vivien, The Muse of the Violets: Poems

“My troubles have so abruptly overcome me.
Time has woven itself… And here I am barefooted”
― Renée Vivien, The Muse of the Violets: Poems