Breath Quote by Sappho

“Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal”

— Sappho

A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die

— Emily Dickinson

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet.

— Terence Young

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

— Hannah More

A creature without a voice. A voice without a name. As immortal as my life. Come here at long last to summon the wind.

— Anonymous

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep,…

— Lord Byron

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

— Cornelia Funke

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

— Anne Sexton

“Thought by thought, breath into utterance, weightless or gravitational...though our experiences are limited by time, our words and their immortal existence are without expiration...”

— Tracey Bond

IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

— Emily Dickinson

Take hold of this (charm) that subjects to immortality (life), may thy life unto old age not be cut off! I bring to thee…

— Atharva Veda

A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.

— William Butler Yeats