A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

—Rupert Brooke

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About Rupert Brooke

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Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, such as "The Dead" and "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish...

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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

—Rupert Brooke

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This was the kind of kiss you remembered when you were a very old lady with a very poor memory.

—Valerie Bowman in The Untamed Earl

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The only way I could describe what kissing him felt like was, like the last day of school, knowing that months of freedom and sunshine lay before you, the feeling that you could do anything you wanted and time stretched out in endless possibilities.

—Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver

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Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street and there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and sensual and inviting, and in the three seconds you have to look at her, you actually fall in love, and in those moments, you can actually know the taste of her kiss, the feel of her skin against yours, the sound of her laugh, how she'll look at you and make you whole. And then she's gone, and in the five seconds afterward, you mourn her loss with more sadness than you'll ever admit to.

—Jonathan Tropper

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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

—e. e. cummings

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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift

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