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Stephen's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
Haunts me night and day.
(Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), U.S. poet. "The Look," st. 2.)
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And when you sigh from kiss to kiss
I hear white Beauty sighing, too,
For hours when all must fade like dew....
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "He Remembers Forgotten Beauty.")
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And learn that the best thing is
To change my loves while dancing
And pay but a kiss for a kiss.
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "The Collar-Bone of a Hare.")
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Mrs. Arbuthnot, in A Woman of No Importance, act 4.)
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And yet a kiss (like blubber)'d blur and slip,
(John Frederick Nims (b. 1913), U.S. poet. Love and Death (l. 1). . .
Western Wind; an Introduction to Poetry. John Frederick Nims, ed. (2d ed., 1983) Random House.)
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I'd just as soon kiss a wookie.
(Leigh Brackett (1915-1978), U.S. screenwriter, George Lucas (b. 1944), and Irvin Kershner. Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), The Empire Strikes Back, after Han Solo proposes kissing her (1980).)
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To avoid eye contact, kiss.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
(Ruth Gordon (1896-1985), U.S. playwright, actor. Benjy, in The Leading Lady, act 2 (1948).)
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