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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.82

Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.

Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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

"Degas: An Intimate Portrait" by Ambroise Vollard, translated by Randolph T. Weaver. Dover, (p. 47), 1986.

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.

Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

i'm afraid to breathe in case i break the spell

Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.258, Hachette UK

I do my job like I breathe.

"You'll think I'm a Madman" by John Colapinto, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2007.

I needed to touch her, like I needed to breathe.

Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2011). “Beautiful Chaos”, p.92, Hachette UK

We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum. Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly Thunders.

James Kirkup (1996). “An extended breath: collected longer poems and sequences”

Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.

"Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.