“A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.” LightAirSweetRainEmptyGhostBeastChestsAfternoonAcheGlamourDaylightUnfinishedPuddlesCarnivalsMidwaySawdustWheezing Author:Katherine Dunn
“For as long as I could push air in and out of my chest, I would remember this moment that could never be measured.” LongMomentsRememberAirChests Author:Julie Murphy
“A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.” IfsMenWorldMindHeartMayWholeBodyGraceAirGoldCirclesWhole WorldChestsCovetousnessTriangles Author:Edmund Spenser
“Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.” EyeUsedForceAirBalanceLaughterIncreaseCellsChestsExquisitePoisePerspiration Book:Cheerfulness As A Life Power (Unabridged): How to Avoid the Soul-Consuming and Friction-Wearing Tendencies of Everyday Life Source: Cheerfulness As A Life Power (Unabridged): How to Avoid the Soul-Consuming and Friction-Wearing Tendencies of Everyday Life
“The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.” HumansBodySoundVoiceLinesAirShapesMouthsBoxesMediumsPoetry IsChestsComing OutHuman Body Author:Robert Pinsky