The Muse of the Violets Quotes

“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

“My troubles have so abruptly overcome me.
Time has woven itself… And here I am barefooted”
― 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

“I love your carnal lips lingering
Still creased by kisses from before.”
― 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

“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

“in its velvet keep
Earth holds you; on your forehead violets weep.”
― 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

“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