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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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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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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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To avoid eye contact, kiss.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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Man Cia finally noticed me, took a long look at me and began to kiss me: a first kiss on the forehead for herself, she said, for her own pleasure; a second one on the left cheek because I was not one of those girls whose strings you could pull to make them dance; a third so the right cheek would not get jealous and one last kiss because she could see that I was a strong little Negress. She added, covering me with her beautiful gaze: "you will stand on earth like a cathedral".
(Simone Schwarz-Bart (b. 1938), Gaudeloupean author. The Bridge of Beyond, p. 58, Éditions du Seuil (1972).)
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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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What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?
(James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Stephen Dedalus, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ch. 1 (1916).)
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