“Poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.”
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Neruda used the image to argue against the idea of literature as a luxury for specialists. The pairing of bread and poetry puts literature on the level of a basic need rather than a decoration.
Source: Recital in the auditorium of the Chilean National Theatre, 1971