Smell

Famous quotes containing the word smell:

    The worst of crimes. All the other crimes are virtues beside it: all the other dishonors are chivalry itself by comparison. Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    With my whole body I taste these peaches,
    I touch them and smell them. Who speaks?
    I absorb them as the Angevine
    Absorbs Anjou. I see them as a lover sees,
    As a young lover sees the first buds of spring
    And as the black Spaniard plays his guitar.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    And though your daisies are an unwanted death,
    I wade through the smell of their cancer
    and recognize the prognosis,
    its cartful of loss . . .
    I say now,
    you gave what you could.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)