Mary Webb Quote

Insects are the artists of fragrance; they have a genius for it; there seems to be some affinity between the tenuity of their being and this most refined of the sense-impressions.


Poems and the Spring of Joy - Joy of Fragrance (p. 164), Jonathan Cape. 1937


Insects are the artists of fragrance; they have a genius for it; there seems to be some affinity between the tenuity of their being and this most...

Insects are the artists of fragrance; they have a genius for it; there seems to be some affinity between the tenuity of their being and this most...

Insects are the artists of fragrance; they have a genius for it; there seems to be some affinity between the tenuity of their being and this most...

Insects are the artists of fragrance; they have a genius for it; there seems to be some affinity between the tenuity of their being and this most...