Usable Breathing Time

Famous quotes containing the words usable, breathing and/or time:

    “It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes
    That all things have their center in their dying....”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “To fair Fidele’s grassy tomb
    Soft maids and village hinds shall bring
    Each opening sweet of earliest bloom,
    And rifle all the breathing spring.”
    —William Collins (1721–1759)

    “Fair Hope! our earlier Heaven! by thee
    Young Time is taster to Eternity.
    The generous wine with age grows strong, not sour,
    Nor need we kill thy fruit to smell thy flower.
    Thy golden head never hangs down
    Till in the lap of Love’s full noon
    It falls and dies: Oh no, it melts away
    As doth the dawn into the day,
    As lumps of sugar lose themselves, and twine
    Their subtle essence with the soul of wine.”
    —Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)