“Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: The River King
“[Concerning the Sugar Pine] The wood is deliciously fragrant, and fine in grain and texture; it is of a rich cream-yellow, as if formed of condensed sunbeams.”
Source: 1890s, The Mountains of California (1894), chapter 8: The Forests <!-- Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 360 -->
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Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 52
Sei Shonagon (966–1025) Japanese author and a court lady
Source: The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon (1002), p. 109
“Sweeter than apples to children
The green water spurted through my pine-wood hull.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Plus douce qu'aux enfants la chair des pommes sures,<br>L'eau verte pénétra ma coque de sapin. <br class="br">St. 5 <br class="br"> Le Bateau Ivre http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Boat.html (The Drunken Boat) (1871)
