Smell

Famous quotes containing the word smell:

    “Sleeping, sleeping,
    it is the
    thunder of the serpent
    drumroll of
    the mounting smell of
    gas.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “For spring had entered the capital
    Walking on gigantic feet.
    The smell of witch hazel indoors
    Changed to narcissus in the street.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)