Bread Quote by Simone Weil

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

— Mary Oliver

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

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is God's work.

— Katy Lederer

“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.”

— Pablo Neruda

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

— William Wordsworth

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

— Ovid

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but…

— Jean Cocteau

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

— Edith Sitwell

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

— Matthew Arnold