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Some time ago it became known that Knut Hamsun was in the habit of expressing his views in an occasional letter to the editor of the local paper in the small town near which he…
Contributor:
Walter Benjamin
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1934
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To the wheel that turns the river’s waters
And brings them upward from the flowing deep,
I sing this song, a song to banish sorrow.
For all who love and cherish and desire
The ways of poetry and…
Contributor:
Solomon Mazal Tov
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
mid 16th Century
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Out of being torn apart
comes art.
Out of being split in two
comes me and you. HA HA!
Out of being torn in three
comes a logical poetry. (She laughed but not at poetry.)
Out of the essential…
Contributor:
David Shapiro
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
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You hold me now completely in your hands
My heart beats like a frightened little bird’s
Against your palm. Take heed! You do not think
A person lives within the page you thumb.
To you this book is…
Contributor:
Gertrud Kolmar
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
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The fire of joy in solitude
. . . And since in vain I have made this journey,
The ground giving way to my burning steps,
Let me embrace this ardor
In abstract revelry
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Contributor:
Henri Franck
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1912
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With this collection, we intend to launch a particular trend in Yiddish poetry which has recently emerged in the works of a group of Yiddish poets. We have chosen to call it the Introspective Movement…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein, A. Leyeles, N. Minkov
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1919
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I have to hide the secrets that I learn from the alley cats.
First. That the Creation was far quieter than we assume. Second. The opposite reversal of things. The stripes in the lens. The thoughts…
Contributor:
Yoel Hoffman
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1995