Scent

Famous quotes containing the word scent:

“But soft, methinks I scent the morning air,
Brief let me be.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Chopin—Two embalmers at work upon a minor poet ... the scent of tuberoses ... Autumn rain.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose’s scent is bitterness
To him that loved the rose.”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)