Quotes About Fragrance

I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

The cotton was open and spilling into the fields; the very air smelled of it. In field after field as he passed along the pickers, arrested in stooping attitudes, seemed fixed amid the constant surf of bursting bolls like piles in surf, the long, partly-filled sacks streaming away behind them like rigid frozen flags. The air was hot, vivid and breathless--a final fierce concentration of the doomed and dying summer.

in the woods the tree frogs were going smelling rain in the air they sounded like toy music boxes that were hard to turn and the honeysuckle come

Caddy smelled like trees in the rain.

Hush now, she said. I'm not going to run away. So I hushed. Caddy smelled like trees in the rain.

She smells like trees

It was such an easy thing, death. He saw that now: It just happened. You screwed up by a fraction and there it was, something chill and odorless, ballooning out from the four stupid corners of the room, your mother's Barrytown living room.

Arleigh's van smelled like long-chain monomers and warm electronics.

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, their words are sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids. I Ching

The hawk had filled the house with wildness as a bowl of lilies fills a house with scent.

Lily was a bunch of crumpled pockets and Sylvie is a black dress, perfumed scarves, iron posture and whatever else turns a person into an atmosphere.

And once I knew a meditative rose that never raised its head from bowing down, yet drew its inspiration from the stars. It bloomed and faded here beside the road, and, being a poet, wrote on empty air with fragrance all the beauty of its soul.

If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.

You can dwarf a soul just as you can dwarf a plant, by depriving it of a full environment. Such a soul for a time may have a "name to live." Its character may betray no sign of atrophy. But its very virtue somehow has the pallor of a flower that is grown in darkness, or as the herb which has never seen the sun, no fragrance breathes from its spirit.

Her mouth is a soft explosion of roses A burst of raw animal definition For a few moments I was mortal

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.