“On a poet's lips I slept
Dreaming like a love-adept
In the sound his breathing kept.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound
Fourth Spirit, Act I, l. 737
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."”
— Plutarch
The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 14
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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