The Color Blue

Here are two quotations about the color blue, one from Scottish novelist and poet George MacDonald (1824-1905) and the other from English essayist, critic and reformer John Ruskin (1819-1900). To read an article about the color blue, click here.

Baby blues

Where did you get those eyes so blue?

Out of the sky as I came through.

--George MacDonald

"Blue" by Sidney Wade : Poets.org

Blue is my favorite color. As English essayist, critic and reformer John Ruskin (1819-1900) wrote, "Blue colour is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight."

Read "Blue" by Sidney Wade and listen to a recording of her reading that poem of hers.