"That's how it always was:/growing among the columns of poetry./Big brother, it was no pleasure, no."
— Franz Werfel

January 1, 1970

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Anna Margolin from the poem "To Franz Werfel," translated from Yiddish by Shirley Kumove in Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005). Under the poem's title she quotes Werfel "How blissful we are/Who live in forms."