Breathing Quote by William Stafford

“Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?”

William Stafford

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An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

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It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.

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“We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size.”

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“There may be losses too great to understand That rove after you and--faint and terrible-- rip unknown through your hand.”

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It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

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I wish," Jared began, and stopped, breathing in. "Do you remember how you used to believe I wasn't real? Sometimes I wish that was…

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The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the…

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I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

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For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.

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I’m in, Cat. I’d never leave you. Especially when you’ve got death breathing down your neck.” “Very funny,” I retorted, since Bones was inches…

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Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like…

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He’d moved toward me again. His hands released mine and moved to my waist, and I noticed I wasn’t the only one breathing heavily.…

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My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

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