Scent Mark

Famous quotes containing the words scent and/or mark:

    “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)

    “I pray that Allah may be moved
    To drop sleep on her eyes because she loved.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)