In this universe, Where the least things control the greatest, where The faintest breath that breathes can move a world.

-Wordsworth,William
^6  Oswald.The Borderers, act 3,1.1562^4 (published1842).

Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Influenceof NaturalObjects', l.1^4 (publishedinTheFriend 28 Dec1809).

I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.

-Wordsworth,William
^1805  The Prelude, bk.1, l.33^8 (published1850).

And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command.

-Wordsworth,William
  'She was a Phantom of delight', l.21^8 (published1807).

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'From Oedipus at Colonnus', stanza 4. Collected in The Tower (1928).