Breath Quotes

In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

The turmoil of her past is blazing my breath.

December will spark the wisdom and knowledge in her breaths so she becomes a new woman in her real form.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

Life is short, we never when it’ll be our last breath.

Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.