Breathe Quote by Denise Levertov Download Open image “We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.” — Denise Levertov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Breathe Fishes Time Water
Time is a river of passing events and we are the fish searching for an ocean. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when… — Simon Birch Copy Share Image
Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them;… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Putting his hope in certain death, lowering his head again to the grass. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“I am, a shadow that grows longer as the sun moves, drawn out on a thread of wonder. If I bear burdens they begin… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am... — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?' — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That… — Robin van Persie Copy Share Image
I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to… — Aden Young Copy Share Image
