Diane Ackerman Quotes
If There Are Words For All The Pastels In A Hue - The Lavenders, Mauves, Fushsias, Plums, And Lilacs - Who Will Name The Tones And Tints Of A Smell? It's As If We Were Hypnotized En Masse And Told To Selectively Forget. It May Be, Too, That Smells Move Us So Profoundly, In Part, Because We Cannot Utter Their Names. In A World Sayable And Lush, Where Marvels Offer Themselves Up Readily For Verbal Dissection, Smells Are Often Right On The Tip Of Our Tongues - But No Closer - And It Gives Them A Kind Of Magical Distance, A Mystery, A Power Without A Name, A Sacredness.
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