Quotes

Smell: Quotes

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. – Helen Keller The act of…

As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can…

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. – Percy Bysshe Shelley The eye is the most refined of our senses, the…

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.― Margaret Atwood As Rilke observed,…

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. – Anne Sexton Read with your ears. – Gerald Manley Hopkins When they turned off,…

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing. – Lucille Clifton Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot The soul…