Oliver Twist has asked for more.

Oliver Twist has asked for more.

There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

They that die by famine die by inches.

They that die by famine die by inches.

Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.

Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.

It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.

It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.

So hungry I could eat a horse

So hungry I could eat a horse

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it.

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio read more

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem,
potionis sitim.]

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how read more

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.