Saturday, February 15, 2014

Continued hoping is our laborious job

I was only aware that Brecht wrote some astonishingly good plays.  And he was a big fan of my beloved Goethe, who I love for his science. I don't know any of Goethe's poetry.  Here is a snippet of Brecht's:

“Such scents of berries and of birches there!/ Thick-corded winds that softly cradle air/ [. . .]/ The refugee beneath the alders turns/To his laborious job: continued hoping.” (From: Finnish Epigrams)

No comments: