Quotes About Bread

I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?

I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace

The Toaster] A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red sits at my elbow and toasts my bread. I hand him fat slices, then one by one he hands them back when he sees they are done.

The French word copain came about because your friends (copains, from compagnons) are the people with whom you break bread, or share pain.

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

When the bread basket comes to the table and I have a bite, people are like, "Oh, you eat bread?" I say, "Oh, my God, of course I eat bread. I'm human."

Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?

Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.