Edith Wharton Breath Quotations

Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was reading, and one book after another dropped from his hand. Suddenly, among them, he lit on a small volume of verse which he had ordered because the name had attracted him: "The House of Life." He took it up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffebly tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.