Peter Weiss Short Quotes

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Only in his poetry did he have the courage to love.

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I've twisted and turned them every way,
And can see no ending to our play.

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The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.

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What's the point of a revolution
without general
copulation copulation copulation

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However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

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We can say what we like without favour or fear
and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

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Fight on land and sea
All men want to be free
If they don't
never mind
we'll abolish all mankind

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With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

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Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.

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In Dante the hero would rather flee
and renounce the tempting embrace
instead of yielding to his desires
and enduring the attendant dangers.

Peter Weiss
So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture
of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ
and prayed to that image of their helplessness

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We've got rights the right to starve
We've got jobs waiting for work
We're all brothers lousy and dirty
We're all free and equal to die like dogs

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Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.

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What has gone wrong with
the men who are ruling
I'd like to know who
they think they are fooling
They told us that torture
was over and gone
but everyone knows
the same torture goes on

Peter Weiss