Breath

Famous quotes containing the word breath:

“Be thou my exaltation
Or fortitude of mien,
Lord of the world’s elation,
Thou breath of things unseen!”
—Bliss Carman (1861–1929)

“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)