Quotations About / On: KISS

  • 41.
    On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
    Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.
    (Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. The Rape of the Lock (Fr. II). . . Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 42.
    Egypt had maimed us,
    offered dream for life,
    an opiate
    for a kiss,
    and death for both.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Egypt.")
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  • 43.
    But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed,
    That I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
    (John Gay (1685-1732), British dramatist. Lucy, in The Beggar's Opera, act 3, sc. 1, air 41.)
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  • 44.
    I will be free,
    no lover's kiss
    to bind me to earth,
    no bliss of love
    to counteract
    actual bliss.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "In the Rain.")
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  • 45.
    Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
    (Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 62 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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  • 46.
    Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
    Ae fareweel, alas, for ever!
    (Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet. Ae Fond Kiss (l. 1-2). . . New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, The. Roger Lonsdale, ed. (1984) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 47.
    Olaf (being to all intents
    a corpse and wanting any rag
    Upon what god unto him gave)
    responds, without getting annoyed
    "I will not kiss your f.ing flag"
    (E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. I sing of olaf glad and big (l. 15-19). . . Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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  • 48.
    If she first meet the curled Antony,
    He'll make demand of her, and spend that kiss
    Which is my heaven to have.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 5, sc. 2, l. 301-2. Referring to her servant Iras, who has just died; Cleopatra expects to meet Antony in death.)
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  • 49.
    Lips that would kiss
    Form prayers to broken stone.
    (T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Hollow Men (l. 50-51). . . Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 50.
    Fare thee well, dame, what e'er becomes of me.
    This is a soldier's kiss.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Antony, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc. 4, l. 29-30. Renewing his role as a soldier, and bidding farewell to Cleopatra as if she were a housewife.)
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