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Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
(Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), U.S. poet. "Poem Out of Childhood," line 1 (1935).)
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The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
(William James (1842-1910), U.S. philosopher, psychologist. Originally published in Journal of Philosophy (1904). "Does 'Consciousness' Exist?" Essays in Radical Empiricism, 1912.)
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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
(Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist. Orlando, ch. 4 (1928).)
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They know they are about to die,
but breathe like premies, in and out,
upon my kitchen table.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Break Away.")
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If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
One cordial in this melancholy vale,
'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair
In other's arms breathe out the tender tale,
(Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet. The Cotter's Saturday Night (l. 77-80). . .
Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.)
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For through my lips may breathe adieu,
I cannot think the thing farewell.
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. In Memoriam A. H. H. (Fr. CXXIII, l. 11-12). . .
Tennyson; a Selected Edition. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1989) University of California Press.)
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I have seen a medicine
That's able to breathe life into a stone.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Lafew, in All's Well That Ends Well, act 2, sc. 1, l. 72-3.
Referring to the beauty of Helena, as able to cure the sick King.)
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Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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We breathe an ill wind,
nevertheless our kind
in mushroom multitudes
jostles for elbow-room
moonwards ...
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Three Meditations.")
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To go by the asters
and breathe
the sweetness that hovers
in August about the tall milkweeds,
without a direct look ...
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Luxury.")
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