Air Quote by Marianne Moore

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

— Leigh Hunt

“….. The air smelled of sweet ocean, a special thing. As a little girl she’d identified a half dozen ways the sea could smell,…

— Jennifer Haigh

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

— Henry David Thoreau

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To behold the day-break! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate.

— Walt Whitman

“The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped…

— Charles Dickens

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

— Epes Sargent

“The air was so rich it had body, fragrance seeming to carry in it as easily as sound: perfumes, birdcalls, every breeze as alive…

— Laini Taylor

“As the wind, wandering over the sea, takes from each wave an invisible portion, and brings to those on shore the ethereal essence of…

— Richard Jefferies

I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly,…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

— Walter J. Phillips

Believe me, I grow daily more convinced that the atmosphere is an inexhaustible source of countless beauties. It is up to we artists to…

— Mario de Sa-Carneiro