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 the human season on this sterile air
Do words outcarry breath the sound goes on and on.
I hear a dead man’s cry from autumn long since gone.

I cry to you beyond upon his bitter air.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

“You ever gentle gods, take my breath from me;
Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
To die before you please!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)