This chapter investigates the role of breath, wind, and air in modern European poetry. Following the recent findings of other breath scholars, such as T. H. Ford and Stefanie Heine, among others, it argues that the increasing materialization of breath, wind, and air that can be found in the modern European poetic canon marks a crucial countermovement to the long-standing “forgetfulness of breath” and “spiritualization of the spirit,” which found European culture. Beginning with an exploration of these historical processes, which severed spirit from any conception of material breath, wind, or air and culminated in the immaterial Geist of Hegelian philosophy, the chapter then turns to the Romantic period, where breath and air reemerge as central poetic figures. Through a reading of Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind, it demonstrates how Romantic poetry preserved an ambiguous continuity between wind, spirit, and subjectivity, which opened a way for later rematerializations. The discussion then shifts to French Symbolism, where Verlaine’s Romances sans paroles is shown to radicalize this process by dissolving the subject—the human spirit—into an impersonal, atmospheric, and aerial expression. By tracing the poetic rematerialization of the spirit through air and breath from Romanticism to modernism, this chapter reveals how European poetry has not only resisted its own spiritualist heritage but has also anticipated contemporary discussions on breath, materiality, and ecological interrelation.