A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

The line expresses a familiar Romantic idea: physical intimacy can momentarily suspend time’s effects, restoring a sense of freshness, hope, and emotional vitality. A kiss becomes a symbolic act of renewal—less about literal age than about the subjective feeling of youth that love can awaken. The phrase “wipes out the years” suggests that affection can override accumulated fatigue, regret, or cynicism, returning the lover to an earlier, more innocent intensity of feeling. Even if often quoted as a standalone aphorism, its appeal lies in compressing a whole philosophy of love-as-rejuvenation into a single, memorable image.