Always waiting and what to do or to say in the meantime
I don't know, and who wants poets at all in lean years?


'Bread and Wine' (1800–01), translated by Michael Hamburger in Poems and Fragments (1994)


Always waiting and what to do or to say in the meantime I don't know, and who wants poets at all in lean years?

Always waiting and what to do or to say in the meantime I don't know, and who wants poets at all in lean years?

Always waiting and what to do or to say in the meantime I don't know, and who wants poets at all in lean years?

Always waiting and what to do or to say in the meantime I don't know, and who wants poets at all in lean years?