Mary Oliver
Poet
"Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)"
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Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything."
Emily Dickinson
Poet
"God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me."
Wallace Stevens
Poet
"Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints."
Marcel Proust
Novelist
"No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me."
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"Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!"
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