Bread Quote by Louis Untermeyer

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of…

— Louis Untermeyer

What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?

— Louis Untermeyer

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

— Stanley Kunitz

What moments divine, what rapture serene. Till clouds came along to disperse the joys we had tasted and now when I hear people curse…

— Beegie Adair

“The very reason why the poetry excites one to such abandonment, such rapture, is that it celebrates some feeling that one used to have…

— Virginia Woolf

We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the…

— Phil Lesh

“God is great and God is good, And we thank Him for this food. By His hand may we be led, Give us Lord…

— Betty MacDonald

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hymns are the poetry of the people.

— John Betjeman

Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

— J. C. Ryle

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

— Seamus Heaney

“It is always beneficial to praise the Lord; it cheers the day and brightens the night; it lightens toil and softens sorrow; and over…

— Charles H. Spurgeon