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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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The real start of the myth of the Jew with the Knife in English literature goes back to the tale, already hundreds of years old, which Chaucer puts into the mouth of his Prioress, a character faintly…
Contributor:
Leslie A. Fiedler
Places:
Missoula, United States of America
Date:
1949
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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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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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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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At a time when the worship of the dead letter degenerated into idolatry; at a time when men passed their lives in counting the verses, the words and the letters of the Law, at a time when the official…
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Adolphe Franck
Places:
Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1843
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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