Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant."
Incense quotes
Incense
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Robert Browning
Poet, Playwright
"Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!"
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion."
Matsuo Basho
Poet
"Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown."
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"The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . ."
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"Christ was born in a manger, laying down amongst donkeys ang goats. He was given gifts of incense and perfume. No kidding."
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"If you visit a temple, you can see pictures of God, you can see the Deity form of the Lord, and you can just hear Him by listening to yourself and others say the mantra. It's just a way of realizing that all the senses can be applied toward perceiving God, and it makes it that much more appealing, seeing the pictures, hearing the mantra, smelling the incense, flowers, and so on."
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