A Kiss Defined in Cyrano de Bergerac
My favorite movie of all time is Cyrano de Bergerac. Gerard Depardieu at his best. The way Cyrano expresses his love for Roxanne is moving and poetic. The face is Christian, the soul is Cyrano.
"And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.'"
- Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Act 3 (http://classiclit.about.com/od/cyranodebergerac/a/aa_cyranoquotes.htm)
"And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.'"
- Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Act 3 (http://classiclit.about.com/od/cyranodebergerac/a/aa_cyranoquotes.htm)
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