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...e woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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... et Circen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrela...ted to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this sad state, God Tender Bowells run Out streams of Grace: And he to end all strife... The Purest Wheate in Heaven, his deare-dear Son Grinds, and kneads up into this Bread of Life. Which Bread of Life from Heaven down came and stands Disht on thy Table up by Angells Hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once in this wine the summer blood Knocked in the flesh that decked the vine,... Once in this bread The oat was merry in the wind; Man broke the sun, pulled the wind down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not eat the bread of the stingy; do not desire their delicacies; for like a hair in the throat, so are they. "Eat and drink!" t...hey say to you; but they do not mean it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »