“Bread that must be sliced with an ax is bread that is too nourishing.”
"Food for Thought and Vice Versa" (p. 109).
Metropolitan Life (1978)
“I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread”
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
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“I know on which side my bread is buttred.”
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Part II, chapter 7.
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I, This section is also known as "Bread and Music"
Discordants (1916)
Context: Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
All that was once so beautiful is dead.
“"I die, I die!" the Mother said,
"My children die for lack of Bread."”
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1810s, Miscellaneous poems and fragments from the Nonesuch edition
John Heywood
(1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Yes yes, said she, for all those wise words uttered,
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
But there will no butter cleave on my bread.
And on my bread any butter to be spread.
Every promise that you therein do utter,
Is as sure as it were sealed with butter.
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546)
