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Death,
you lie in my arms like a cherub,
as heavy as bread dough.
Your milky wings are as still as plastic.
Anne Sexton
death
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And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to th ...
Angela Carter
bread | housewives | cookery
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It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.
M.F.K. Fisher
eating
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That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panem ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
art | artists | Circe
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrela ...
Adrienne Rich
art
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What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow;
What are brief? Today and tomorrow; ...
Christina Georgina Rossetti
questions
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In this sad state, God Tender Bowells run
Out streams of Grace: And he to end all strife ...
Edward Taylor
grace | gifts
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Once in this wine the summer blood
Knocked in the flesh that decked the vine, ...
Dylan Thomas
bread | wine
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I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and each day the people shall go out and gather enough for that day.
unknown author
God, providence of | wilderness
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For my sighing comes like my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
unknown author
suffering
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