The age demanded that we dance
And jammed us into iron pants.
And in the end the age was handed
The sort of shit that it demanded.


"The Age Demanded" in Der Querschnitt (February 1925); as quoted in Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation (1983) by Noel Riley Fitch

Ernest Hemingway Quotes

The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it demanded.

The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it demanded.

The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it demanded.

The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it demanded.