“Every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope’s perpetual breath.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
These Times strike Monied Worldlings.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope’s perpetual breath.
“I inhale hope with every breath I take.”
Sharon Kay Penman book When Christ and His Saints Slept
Source: When Christ and His Saints Slept
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Canto I, stanza 15.
The Corsair (1814)
“Hold onto your breath
Hold onto your heart
Hold onto your hope”
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) American song lyricist
"Optimistic Voices".
Context: You’re out of the woods
You’re out of the dark
You’re out of the night
Step into the sun, step into the light,
Keep straight ahead
For the most glorious place
On the Face of the Earth
Or the sky. Hold onto your breath
Hold onto your heart
Hold onto your hope,
March up to the gate
And bid it open.
“Thy soft-breathed hopes with magic might
Have chased from my soul the shades of night”
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon (1829–1879) Canadian writer
from The Parting Soul and her Guardian Angel
Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
"The Contest" (1959)
