Quotations About / On: KISS
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41.
On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
(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.)
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. -
42.
Egypt had maimed us,
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Egypt.")
offered dream for life,
an opiate
for a kiss,
and death for both. -
43.
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed,
(John Gay (1685-1732), British dramatist. Lucy, in The Beggar's Opera, act 3, sc. 1, air 41.)
That I languished and pined till I granted the rest. -
44.
I will be free,
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "In the Rain.")
no lover's kiss
to bind me to earth,
no bliss of love
to counteract
actual bliss. -
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).) -
46.
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
(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.)
Ae fareweel, alas, for ever! -
47.
Olaf (being to all intents
(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.)
a corpse and wanting any rag
Upon what god unto him gave)
responds, without getting annoyed
"I will not kiss your f.ing flag" -
48.
If she first meet the curled Antony,
(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.)
He'll make demand of her, and spend that kiss
Which is my heaven to have. -
49.
Lips that would kiss
(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.)
Form prayers to broken stone. -
50.
Fare thee well, dame, what e'er becomes of me.
(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.)
This is a soldier's kiss.
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