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Crises of expression and spasms of eros:
that's the man of today,
the inside a vacuum,
the continuity of personality
provided by his suit,
which with stout cloth might be good for ten years.


Gottfried Benn

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Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn

Born: May 2, 1886
Died: July 7, 1956 (aged 70)
Bio: Gottfried Benn was a German poet and essayist.
Known for:
  1. Impromptus: Selected Poems and Some Prose
  2. Primal vision
  3. Prose, essays, poems
  4. Gehirne (1916)
  5. Doppelleben (1950)

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