Fragrance

Famous quotes containing the word fragrance:

    All florists praise the fragrance of their own flowers.
    Chinese proverb.

    Such a style,—so diversified and variegated! It is like the face of a country; it is like a New England landscape, with farmhouses and villages, and cultivated spots, and belts of forests and blueberry swamps round about, with the fragrance of shad-blossoms and violets on certain winds.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    To what good, in the alleys of the lilacs,
    O caliper, do you scratch your buttocks
    And tell the divine ingénue, your companion,
    That this bloom is the bloom of soap
    And this fragrance the fragrance of vegetal?
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)