This is the year which people will talk about.
This is the year which people will be silent about.
The old see the young die.
The foolish see the wise die.
The earth no longer produces, it devours.
The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
Bertolt Brecht
Finnland 1940 (1940), trans. Sammy McLean in Poems, 1913–1956, p. 350 — Poems, 1913–1956 (1976)
This is the year which people will be silent about.
The old see the young die.
The foolish see the wise die.
The earth no longer produces, it devours.
The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
Bertolt Brecht
Finnland 1940 (1940), trans. Sammy McLean in Poems, 1913–1956, p. 350 — Poems, 1913–1956 (1976)