Violet

“Tumbling-hair
picker of buttercups
violets
dandelions
And the big bullying daisies
through the field wonderful
with eyes a little sorry
Another comes
also picking flowers”
― E. E Cummings, Poems, 1905-1962

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.”
― A.A. Milne