Breath

Famous quotes containing the word breath:

“Child, the current of your breath is six days long.
You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed;
lie, fisted like a snail, so small and strong
at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed
with love.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)