Franz Kafka:
Robert Hass:
It’s hell writing and it’s hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Ezra Pound:
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Carol Frost:
Else Lasker-Schüler (tr. from German by Audri Durchslag-Litt and Jeanette Litman-Demeestère):
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