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)

    “Mark the babe
    Not long accustomed to this breathing world;
    One that hath barely learned to shape a smile,
    Though yet irrational of soul, to grasp
    With tiny finger—to let fall a tear;
    And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves,
    To stretch his limbs, bemocking, as might seem,
    The outward functions of intelligent man.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “Pluck down my officers, break my decrees,
    For now a time is come to mock at form.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)