Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across a thousand miles and all the years we have lived.”
- Source
- The World I Live In
- Date
- 1908
Meaning of “Smell is a potent wizard that transports us…”
A sensory cue can collapse distance and time, showing how memory is often recovered through concrete impressions rather than deliberate analysis alone.
Where does it come from?
The World I Live In (1908), Chapter VI, “Smell, the Fallen Angel,” printed page 79, Project Gutenberg #27683. Keller calls smell a potent wizard after describing scent as capable of restoring distant places and earlier periods of her life; the sentence is autobiographical sensory reflection, not a general neuroscience claim.
