“Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.”
JANE ROGERS, The Ice is Singing
“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.” Charles Dickens
“It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“And yet
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself.” CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, Les Fleurs du Mal
