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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

Bertolt Brecht

For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom

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