Francis Thompson (1859–1907) British poet
St. 1. <br class="br"> The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)
“To detach yourself elegantly from the world; to give contour and grace to sadness; a solitude in style; a walk that gives cadence to memories; stepping towards the intangible; with the breath in the trembling margins of things; the past reborn in the overflow of fragrances; the smell, through which we conquer time; the contour of the invisible things; the forms of the immaterial; to deepen yourself in the intangible; to touch the world airborne by smell; aerial dialogue and gliding dissolution; to bathe in your own reflecting fragmentation…”
The Book of Delusions (1936)
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David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
Commonly misquoted as "I can smell the uranium on your breath", as in A New Zealand Dictionary of Political Quotations, p. 94.
During the Oxford Union Debate, 1 March 1985.
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Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) English sculptor
Source: 1961 - 1975, Barbara Hepworth, A Pictorial autobiography', 1970, p. 280
“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”
Cyril Connolly (1903–1974) British author
Edward Thomas, "Early One Morning" from Poems (1917) http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/library/thomas04.html#five <br class="br">Misattributed
