Gentian Quotes

The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth. (John Ruskin)
And the blue gentian flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark. View quote
D. H. Lawrence