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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
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.
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Fool Government Splits
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken 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
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels

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