Author: Bertolt Brecht

My young son asks me: Must I learn mathematics? What is the use, I feel like saying. That two pieces […]

Indeed I live in the dark ages! A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens A hard heart. […]

After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writers Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating […]

Show me the way to the next whisky bar Oh, don’t ask why, oh, don’t ask why Show me the […]

My love Has told me That he needs me. That’s why I take good care of myself Watch out where […]

You little box, held to me escaping So that your valves should not break Carried from house to house to […]

So there you sit. And how much blood was shed That you might sit there. Do such stories bore you? […]

And because a man is human He’ll want to eat, and thanks a lot But talk can’t take the place […]

We embrace. Rich cloth under my fingers While yours touch poor fabric. A quick embrace You were invited for dinner […]

Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear And he shows them pearly white. Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear […]

Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it, My brother Shelley found it to be a place Much like the city […]

Peoples of the world, together Join to serve the common cause! So it feeds us all for ever See to […]

When the Academy of Arts demanded freedom Of artistic expression from narrow-minded bureaucrats There was a howl and a clamour […]