A BREEze and BREAth are felt rather than seen. BREAthing is like exhaling or expiring a BREEze from the  BREAast.

BREATH or inHALE, exHALE and HALItosis belong to a series of words that convey a HALO or sense of warmth and vapor. BREATH and BREEZE also point to BUST BURST as well as to ATMOS, ATMOSphere and ASTHMa, further explored below.

To save love bonds, Thisbe and Pyramus, Juliet and Romeo and countless other lovers chose death. The SPECTacle and SPECTer of such GHASTly deeds has inSPIRed many poets to infuse de GHOST of the exPIRed SPIRits with such SPECTacular beauty that their SPECTers gained immortality.

Love bonds persist after a lover exPIRes.

ReSPIRE and inSPIRE impact the SPIRit or ANIMA. In fact, when an ANIMA becomes ANIMATED, it emanates energy akin to a protruding SPIRE.  On the other hand, those who  perSPIRE from fear may at times eXPIRe. Some say that the ANIMA of exPIRED persons can become a SPECTer that can trigger inSPIRed aSPIRing poets toward speculations that irritate those who are SKEPTics. In the case, gynecologists often base their SPECulations on vistas they gather when using a SPECulum.

Music and the Muses inSPIRe Harmony. Motherhood inSPIRes nurturing.

ASTHMA, in medical parlance, refers to PANTing or gasping respirations. Asthma points to aSTHENOS which in Greek implies debility or lack of strength. PANTing and PANTaloon have roots in apere, Latin for open as in aperture. Pantaloon or PANTS are rather loose fitting BREECHES or britches that tremble as per TRUS and TRUSy which in Ukrainian denote pants as well as describe a trembling coward.

Danae was inspired by gold.

Narcissus was inspired by "Self".

Shapely youth exHALE attractions that may inSPIRE GHASTly perversions.

The relationship of BREATH with BUST, BREAST, BREECHES or britches are consonant with PANTing of loose fitting PANTs. Furthermore BRIUKo and BRIO also point to animate, as in panting abdomens or animated music.

Enslaved SPIRits aSPIRe to liberty.

From inHALe and exHALe, we get HAIL, HELlo, HALsa, hilse, HULlabaloo and other ancient battle shouts produced by vigorous exPIRAtion of breath. It is not clear if HALE points to HELL but HALITOSIS which is linked to anHELO points to a "bad" ANGEL or the devil. Earlier, the eminently earthy Romans linked fetid breath or HALITOSIS with HALLEX, a popular fetid sauce made from rotting fish. Later, dogmatic Biblical believers asserted that bad angels and their leader, the devil, had a rotten soul or HALITUS. In the dark ages, it became popular to hunt for WITCHES. Many women were called WICCA or witch and became WIGILA or victims of vicious and lethal prosecutions carried out, as many wars are, in the name of the Lord. Later Goethe used the name Mephisto or Mephistopheles to refer to the devil which he coined from Mephitis, which describes the rotten odor emanating from Hades or hell.

Some religions are inSPIred by peace but others exHALE ideas that can cause wars.

In medical parlance, respirations that cease to be unconscious and become laborious or conscious are referred to as Dyspnea which implies "ill breathing". Labored respiration is a major sign of bronchial ASTHma, which if severe, induces weakness or ASTHenia. In such circumstances, expiration, which normally is passive becomes an active laborious effort to achieve the expulsion of the air trapped in the pulmonary system by a spasm of the bronchial tree.

To exHALE or exPIRE can be fun but more often it calls for resucitation.

PNEUmonia or pulmonary inflammation may result in dysPNEA, transPIRAtion, persPIRAtion or even in death or exPIRAtion which is viewed by most religions as the release of the sPIRIt. The remaining aPNEIC breathless body is seen as a lifeless corpse. On the other hand, the asPIRAtions of military corps and mercenary corporations is not to exPIRE but to insPIRE confidence in the public to endorse their immortal materialism.

Those who exPIRE or die in their sleep remind us that sleep and death are related as are their emblems, the twins Somnus and Thanatos.