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“IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has bent down in his old kindly fashion, And breathed upon her his immortal breath. On wounded soldiers, in their anguish lying, Her gentle spirit shall descend like rain. Where the white flag with the red cross is flying, There shall she dwell, the vanquisher of pain.”

Source: Summer of Love

“If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.”

Ifs World Want Wells Said Light Lying Truth Is Breaths Train Rounds Boots Pulling Feathers Well Said Old Proverb

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive ... ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief ... Let me blow the dust from off you ... Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In a dead queen's hand.”

Hands Lying Half Darkness Air Fans Shapes Let Me Breaths Blow Dust Queens Cradle Elusive

Book:Sun-up, and Other Poems

Source: Sun-up, and Other Poems

“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”

Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

“Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!”

Soul Body Earth Lying Heaven Breaths Broads Alas Blinded

Book:Sartor Resartus

Source: Sartor Resartus

“Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye, to read the distant glance; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease; Who with mock patience dire complaints endure, Which real pain and that alone can cure; How would ye bear in real pain to lie, Despised, neglected, left alone to die? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie Cold, dead, and dumb to all the world contains, The folded orbs would open at thy breath, And from its exile in the Isles of Death Life would come gladly back along my veins.”

Ifs World Should Believe Death Lying Dies I Believe Cold Kissing Breaths Dumb Veins Exile Life Death Eyelids Isle Orbs

Book:Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend

Source: Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend