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“There are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.”

Spirit Doors Air Southern Tribes Plentiful

Book:The Celtic Twilight

Source: The Celtic Twilight

“The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.”

Doors Air Breathe

Author:Edgar Degas

“grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping”

House Sleep Grief Doors Air Blow Disappear Rings Bells

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“Light-leaved acacias, by the door, Stood up in balmy air, Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore, And breathed a perfume rare.”

Light Doors Air Bores Perfume Moonlight Stood Up Clusters Acacia

Book:The Disciple, and Other Poems

Source: The Disciple, and Other Poems

“Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).”

Knows Seems Reading Doors Air Reader Twenties Response Opening Sensations Rebel Flash Attacking Blinded Horde Swarms Reading Poetry No Response

Book:The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932

“Tiresome heart, forever living and dying, House without air, I leave you and lock your door. Wild swans, come over the town, come over The town again, trailing your legs and crying!”

Heart House Forever Doors Air Dying Cry Towns Legs Locks Swans Tiresome

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“Odors from decaying food wafting through the air when the door is opened, colorful mold growing between a wet gym uniform and thedamp carpet underneath, and the complete supply of bath towels scattered throughout the bedroom can become wonderful opportunities to help your teenager learn once again that the art of living in a community requires compromise, negotiation, and consensus.”

“Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.”

Long Night Heaven Easy Dark Hell Path Doors Air Sweet Tasks Investing Burden All Night Descent Hades

Author:Virgil

“First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece.... It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Believe Use Problem Kids I Believe Parent Morning Issues Pieces Doors Air Figures Skills Capable Tools Balls

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell