black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Bertolt Brecht

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Discovery Reality
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Already Fighting May
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Finesse Mean Process
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Going Hurry Like
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Mistake Wine Wisdom
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Great Something Virtue Wrong
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Majority Purpose Shoulders
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
BERTOLT BRECHT

People Sitting Spring
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fool Government Splits
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Errors Science Wisdom
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Curves Distance Two
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Life is short and so is money.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Cute Life Money Short
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Another Government People
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Deserve Innocent Shots

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes