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“Time is our present breath.”

Author:Ajahn Chah

“the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath”

Moving Death Time Tree Breaths

Book:Poems, 1938-1949

Source: Poems, 1938-1949

“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.”

Years Feelings Time Figures Breaths Deeds This Life

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.”

Way Firsts Whole Lasts Time Grows Wind Scene Let Me Breaths Setting Passing Passings Settings Breeze Spiders Strands Bathtubs Prehistoric Ferns Spider Web Planters

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion

“Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.”

Feels Sometimes Time Universe Wind Breaths Blow Cheeks Peers Keyholes

Book:The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel

Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel

“Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?”

Time Hours Mystery Design Wind Breaths Something New Time Passing Concept Of Time Passing It

Author:Paracelsus

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse' d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!”

Has Beens Art Soul Seems Pain Time Dies Names Half Rich Air Quiet Breaths Cease Ecstasy Muse Rhyme Midnight Pouring No Pain

Author:John Keats

“Upon my lips the breath of song, Within my heart a rhyme, Howe'er time trips or lags along, I keep abreast with time!”

Heart Time Song My Heart Breaths Lips Rhyme Lag

Book:Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic

Source: Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic

“Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.”

Age Time Sports Youth Cold Weak Hot Breaths Aging Old Age Lame Age And Youth Nimble

Book:The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint

Source: The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint

“Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.”

Stills Enough Lying Time Sleep Blood Journey Travel Breaths Clay Lad

Author:A. E. Housman

“A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and waterfalls. The manifold voices of falling water Take all night. Wrapped in your down bag Starlight on you cheeks and eyelids Your breath comes and goes In a tiny cloud in the frosty night. Ten thousand birds sing in the sunrise. Ten thousand years revolve without change. All this will never be again.”

Source: The Collected Shorter Poems

“Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!”

Death Time Fall Stars Dying Wind Flower Seasons Breaths Impermanence North Wind

Author:John Milton

“Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.”

Should Soul Lasts Time Prove Eternity Breaths Mere Firm Immortality Delusion Cherish Persuasion

Book:The Orations

Source: The Orations