Poems
- Archibald Douglas
- Die Brück' am Tay
- John Maynard
- Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland
- Aber es bleibt auf dem alten Fleck
- Ausgang
- Gorm Grymme
- Das Trauerspiel von Afghanistan (English translation)
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“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)
“Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“This is what poems are:
with mercy
for the greedy,
they are the tongue’s wrangle,
the world’s pottage, the rat’s star.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)