Breath

Famous quotes containing the word breath:

“It is true that the rivers went nosing like swine,
Tugging at banks, until they seemed
Bland belly-sounds in somnolent troughs,
That the air was heavy with the breath of these swine,
The breath of turgid summer, and
Heavy with thunder’s rattapallax....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“What childishness is it that while there’s breath of life
in our bodies, we are determined to rush
to see the sun the other way around?”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“Not a breath of wild air;
Still as the mosses that glow
On the flooring and over the lines”
—George Meredith (1828–1909)