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Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.


Muriel Rukeyser

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The moment you breathe your first breath, you won.
J.R. RIM Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
THOMAS GRAY Things to do today:
1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out.
NED VIZZINI There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.
D. ANTOINETTE FOY Breathe in, breathe out. Without the fire, the phoenix never rises from the ashes. Let the fire scor...
FORREST CURRAN ...not just to exist, not just to breathe in and breathe out, but to live.
KRISTEN ASHLEY Breathe in, breathe out. All the blessings of the universe that we may overlook are contained in the...
FORREST CURRAN Breathe In...Breathe Out...Look At Every Part On Your Body And Thank God For Leaving It There.
FLAMESTARTA "if it hurts when you laugh, it's a good indication you need to do it more often, you may not live a...
SHAUN PARKER Breathe in, breathe out. Over and over again.
Just to prove a broken heart can't really kill yo...
KELLEY YORK They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He was just trying to breathe.
CALEB CARR We breathe when we're wrong, we breathe when we're right, we breathe even as we slip off the ledge t...
TAHEREH MAFI I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are ...
BONO Everything in this Universe is contained in your breathe, so just Breathe.
SUJAY BARTHY Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go.
JASON STATHAM I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
KARL LAGERFELD And she tried to breathe.
ALISON MCGHEE We weren't letting them breathe.
ACIE LAW For me- "to love" - is the synonym to the word - "to breathe". Not more and not less!!!
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST Breathe from within.
THOMAS LEONARD Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
JENNY DOWNHAM I woke up and I couldn't breathe.
SAM THORNTON He doesn't deserve it. he can have any girl in the world's love and he took yours. someone who deser...
ABBI GLINES You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?
RENEE AHDIEH Lol.. he said, "Nerissa what religion do you practice?" I said, " The one where I breathe in Oxygen ...
NERISSA IRVING Through pain came the breathe of life through pain went the breathe of life.
SIBU CHANZA Through pain cames the breathe of life through pain goes the breathe of life.
SIBU CHANZA I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.
KAREN MARIE MONING It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my...
ASHLEY EARLEY I walk to breathe, breathe to love, love to meet you, you keep me walking.
SCOTTIE SOMERS Success starts when you learn to pause to be aware, breathe in that which is good, breathe out that ...
SUSIE L HILL After you, Geekerella.
I sigh - one BuzzFeed article and you've got a nickname for life, appare...
ASHLEY POSTON I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.
DEEPIKA PADUKONE I always breathe cricket.
KAPIL DEV Breathe more. Bitch less.
KAREN SALMANSOHN I breathe in...the silence
of my own heart
aching with tenderness
with memories..
SANOBER KHAN I do my job like I breathe.
KARL LAGERFELD Only when you explore the ecstasy of simply being, where even to breathe is a distraction, can you c...
SADGHURU Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black. She has a knife, knife, knife, stuck...
LAURIE FARIA STOLARZ When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY The deep breathe you just took to show that your problems are bigger than you, is the final breathe ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Breathe in. Take a deep breath. Be aware of your body relaxing. Let out unwanted energy and tension.
LAUREL IZARD We live and breathe words.
CASSANDRA CLARE Without acting I cannot breathe.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR Where U Breathe: 13©.
RICARDO ALONSO Without acting I cannot breathe.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR Smile, breathe and go slowly
THICH NHAT HANH Artistes breathe and dream creativity!
AVIJEET DAS She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe et...
ANNIE DILLARD Women in London must have learned not to breathe,
IRENE TRIMBLE In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colo...
JONAS MEKAS I’m delighted to breathe Despair, it makes me spill out Hope. Hope for detach nations
JEAN MARK JIBRAN When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
VERONICA ROTH Spira, spera.

(breathe, hope)
VICTOR HUGO You can breathe for one hour.
BRACKEN SPENCER Got a bout of doubt? Breathe.
MAGDALENA VANDENBERG In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!
HELEN DUNMORE Love is in the air; oh, please let me breathe!
HELENE LAGERBERG We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
ADAM GOPNIK Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things...
MURIEL RUKEYSER I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice....
MURIEL RUKEYSER The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice....
MURIEL RUKEYSER The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms
MURIEL RUKEYSER Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things...
MURIEL RUKEYSER The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality
MURIEL RUKEYSER Dreams the sources of action, the meeting and the end, / a resting-place among the flight of things.
MURIEL RUKEYSER I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
MURIEL RUKEYSER One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being ...
MURIEL RUKEYSER The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the...
MURIEL RUKEYSER However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, i...
MURIEL RUKEYSER The journey is my home
MURIEL RUKEYSER In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no pe...
MURIEL RUKEYSER Flight is intolerable contradiction.
MURIEL RUKEYSER Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
MURIEL RUKEYSER ...only one man lived who could understand MURIEL RUKEYSER Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot un...
MURIEL RUKEYSER What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
MURIEL RUKEYSER Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.
ILONA ANDREWS Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.
WILLIAM STANDISH KNOWLES Sometimes its really hard to breathe even in the fresh air.
SANDEEP PRADHAN Men need to live and breathe women.
ADAM LEVINE I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
TAHEREH MAFI As long as I breathe, I attack.
BERNARD HINAULT You make it so hard to breathe.
COLLEEN HOOVER Do I need permission to breathe, Sir?
KALLYPSO MASTERS Relax. Smile. Breathe. You can do this.
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN Mine," he whispers.
"Yours," I breathe.
E.L. JAMES To hurt is as human as breathe.
J.K. ROWLING It's something we really live and breathe.
ED WHEELER Just relax and breathe through your ass.
LEWIS BLACK It's not good. I can barely breathe.
MATT MANTEI If we are not empty, we become a block of matter.
We cannot breathe, we cannot think.
To be ...
THICH NHAT HANH The smoke was very thick. I could hardly breathe. I helped (other) people out (of the building).
ANTHONY MIRANDA Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
CAMERON BRIGHT

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MURIEL SPARK They didn't recognize me," I repeat.
He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm.
"It is be...
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Modern and Classical, they are equal...
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MURIEL SPARK Nothing infuriates people more than their own lack of spiritual insight.
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MURIEL SPARK ... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority.
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