“It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to use the wild language we are learning by heart under the sea. When a woman speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, staying tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul. To live this way is a cycle in itself, one meant to go on, go on, go on.” WayHeartSoulUseFeelingsSpeakLanguageChanceFireSeaGoes OnHolySingingBreathsIntentionStreamsStayingCycles Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.” WorldArtPhilosophyBodyLanguageHistoryPerceptionBreathsUnconsciousOur WorldOur Thoughts Author:Philippe Sollers
“In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.” ArtMatterLanguageVoiceImaginationSpeechBreathsTempoManic Author:Adrienne Rich
“Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.” SometimesMomentsLanguageLinesPathSeeingBreathsWoodsClimbingHikingGlimpseCatchingBenchesSteepBends In The Road Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?” PeopleHumansLittlesPersonsImportantLanguageTermEmotionBreathsPossessionDeeperPetAttachmentDestinationVacationFrustratingInsultingHuman LanguageFavorite Foods Book:Halo Source: Halo
“As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.” StillsUseYoungScienceLanguageGrowsGrowing UpLearningEvolutionBreathsSpeciesBrandsFollySomedayPermitThumbsMeasurementBrand NewMarveling Author:Lewis Thomas
“I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.” IfsThinkingWritingEndsLiteratureLanguageBreathsProseBulletsParagraphDodging Bullets Author:Lynn Abbey
“Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.” MomentsLanguageHabitBreathsRhythmPresent MomentAntidoteMeasurementSyllables Book:The Impostor Source: The Impostor