Smell

Famous quotes containing the word smell:

“Your faith an’ trouth yese never get
Nor our trew Love shall never twain
Till ye come within my bower
And kiss me both cheek and chin.

My mouth it is full cold, Margret,
It has the smell now of the ground;
An’ if I kiss thy com’ly mouth
Thy life days will not be long.”
—Unknown. Clerk Saunders (l. 109–116)

“Let my muse
Fail of thy former helps, and only use
Her inadulterate strength. What’s done by me
Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“One can smell it turning to gas; if one were Baudelaire
one could probably hear it turning to marimba music.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)