Literary notes about celestial white (AI summary)
In literature, "celestial white" is often employed to evoke a sense of ethereal beauty and spiritual purity. Writers use this hue to contrast with more somber colors, such as the melancholy green of fallen leaves, imbuing their settings with an almost transcendent glow [1]. Frequently described in the context of the skies—as with the "milky baldric of the skies" streaked with the morning light—the color becomes a symbol for a higher, otherworldly order, blurring the boundaries between the natural and the divine [2], [3], [4]. It also appears in descriptions of nature, as when water-lilies are depicted in "celestial white," further reinforcing its association with both clarity and the sublime [5].
- They seemed to shine with their own celestial whiteness, set in their melancholy green among the fallen leaves.
— from Christmas Roses and Other Stories by Anne Douglas Sedgwick - She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light." Drake.
— from Thirteen Chapters of American History represented by the Edward Moran series of Thirteen Historical Marine Paintings by Theodore Sutro - She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light.
— from America First: Patriotic Readings - She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, [ 574 ] And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light.
— from Familiar QuotationsA Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced toTheir Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature - Here it appears covered with violet lotuses, here with red lotuses and there again with celestial white water-lilies.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume Two. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam by Valmiki
