Love is the poetry of the senses.
?Honoré de Balzac
. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours,
that is innate; none but what has been obtained from
experience, or derived in some way from our senses.
?William Harvey
I don't believe civilization can do a lot
more than educate a person's senses.
?Grace Paley
Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across
thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.
?Helen Keller
The imagination and the senses cannot
be gratified at the same time.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was afraid that by observing objects
with my eyes and trying to comprehend
them with each of my other senses
I might blind my soul altogether.
?Socrates
When music fails to agree to the ear, to
soothe the ear and the heart and the
senses, then it had missed the point.
?Maria Callas
I never know whether to pity or congratulate
a man on coming to his senses.
?William M. Thackeray
The source of genius is imagination alone, . . .
the refinement of the senses that sees what
others do not see, or sees them differently.
?Eugene Delacroix
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,
just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
?Oscar Wilde