"Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and……" — 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 bread?"
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Louis Untermeyer
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8 Quotes by Louis Untermeyer
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
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Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
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Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, Brimming with silence and the stars; While earth, bathed in this holy light,…
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Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us…
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Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding;…
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From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is…
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Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and…
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More Bread Quotes
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
— Paul Auster
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
— Tyra Banks
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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