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Quotes About Sensory

Words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
~ Deb Caletti
One is far better off feeling than one is thinking.
~ A.D. Posey
we are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.
~ Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart.
~ Debasish Mridha
The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
~ Maria Montessori
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.
~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.
~ Sondra Horton Fraleigh
Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.
~ Maya Angelou
No puedo negar los fuegos artificiales cuando iluminan el cielo y retumban entre los rascacielos de la ciudad cada vez que me besa… y a veces sólo con sus abrazos.
~ Javier Martínez
Me doy la vuelta y le regalo una de mis mejores sonrisas. Lo abrazo. Lo huelo. Me teletransporto a un lugar donde el mundo no gira. Huele a naranja.
~ Javier Martínez
Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
and the slapping feet of the men that follow the box. They have no faces and they feel with the whiskers of dogs.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
I've focused for hypnos in the past, and they didn't feel
~ Jayne Castle
I like reality. It tastes like bread.
~ Jean Anouilh
How many faces, how many bodies can you recognize, with your eyes closed, only by touching them? Have you ever closed your eyes and acted unconsciously? Or loved someone so blindly, you could almost feel their energy in a dark room and be moved by the powerful touch of their ideas?
~ Jean Baudrillard
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
~ Jean Cocteau
We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.
~ Jean Craighead George
and June burst over the mountain. It smelled good, tasted good, and was gentle to the eyes.
~ Jean Craighead George
les feuilles faisaient du bruit comme une robe de faille.
~ Jean Giono
Her Lips Are Copper Wire" whisper of yellow globes gleaming on lamp posts that sway like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog and let your breath be moist against me like bright beads on yellow globes telephone the power-house that the main wires are insulate (her words play up and down dewy corridors of billboards) then with your tongue remove the tape and press your lips to mine till they are incandescent
~ Jean Toomer
They are so accustomed to the feeling that their senses are deadened to it;
~ Jean Webster
My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)
~ Jeanette Lynes
Marie se sentait bien, nue sous les draps a l'abri de l'orage, les sens exacerbes dans le noir, les yeux brillants dans les eclairs, savourant avec volupte la dimension erotique du plaisir qu'il y a de jouir de l'orage dans la chaleur d'un lit, la fenetre ouverte dans la nuit, quand le ciel se dechire et les elements se dechainent. La main et le regard, il n'est jamais question que de cela dans la vie, en amour, en art.
~ Jean-Philippe Toussaint