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The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.

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Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish

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I have learnt the Hebrew blessing before eating bread; is there no blessing before reading Hebrew?

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I like the streets of New York City, where I was born, better than these streets of palms. No doubt, my father liked his village in Ukraine better than the streets of New York City; and my grandfather the city and its synagogue, where he once read aloud the holy books, better than the village in which he dickered in the market-place.

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How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted, sure that you would not die with your work unended, as if the iron scythe in the grass stops for a flower?

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I will walk by myself
and cure myself
in the sunshine and the wind.


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The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Charles Reznikoff

Charles Reznikoff

Born: August 31, 1894
Died: January 22, 1976 (aged 81)
Bio: Charles Reznikoff was an American poet best known for his long work, Testimony: The United States, Recitative. The term Objectivist was coined for him.
Known for:
  1. By the Waters of Manhattan (1930)
  2. Holocaust (1975)
  3. Family chronicle (1963)
  4. Poems 1918-1975

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