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Anna Margolin
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“Above is a patch of sky, but this has already turned grey, cold and deeply calm. Slowly, slowly, as though embarrassed, long, soft, dark shadows crawl in through the open window, stealing their way into the room, growing bold, and making themselves comfortable in every corner.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In France" published in 1909 in the New York newspaper Di Fraye arbeter shtime, translated from Yiddish by Daniel Kennedy
“A man over forty is in his prime. When can one live if not now? When does one know how to live if not in these years? It's not with twenty, but with forty that one comes into one's true youth. In France they understand these things.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In France" published in 1909 in the New York newspaper Di Fraye arbeter shtime, translated from Yiddish by Daniel Kennedy
“Yearning conquers fear.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is how it always goes: when my life becomes dismal and sombre, I delve into my past and select sparks of pure joy, of untainted happiness and use them to light up my blackened soul. And here it is, my beautiful dream: A quiet, trembling night spread its wings over the blooming valley, shrouding it in starless obscurity.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My face burns with shame.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My books, my great friends, gaze down on me with quiet resentment, calling me to them.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sit with my books all day. But then the evening comes, quiet, nostalgic and sad and, unnoticed, the work slips away out of my hands. I suddenly get the urge to see wide, open skies and dark earth, the urge to breathe freely and not suffocates under heavy stones. Here in the long, narrow streets between high walls, you won't find wonders such as these. I throw myself down on the bed, close my eyes and my fantasy takes me away to where the sky is broad and wide and the earth is free to breathe-to my”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reality and dreams are weaving together, flowing into each other and I don't know where one ends and the other begins.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm young and strong and not afraid to stare my sorrow in the eyes, drinking it down to the dregs. And because I am young and strong the work draws me in, just as life does, the joy of life. Lately I find myself pausing in wonder when faced with the creations of the long-gone, half-forgotten peoples. The past is becoming as familiar and dear to me as the present, as the advance fulfillment of tomorrow. I sometimes feel as though I'm bathing in the light of those stars, long dead, which continue to send us their bright, shining light. We are bound to them by thin threads, spun from gold.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have no desire for rhetoric, for platitudes, and cannot find the words as deep and great as my awe for mankind, as my awe for its creation. Not with words-I will prove it with my life.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If my idea is weak, it will flare up just for a moment, halting, fearful of every hurdle. I want to select the brightest and most beautiful ideas in generations, ideas which have until now only revealed themselves to a select few, and make them clear and comprehensible for thousands and tens of thousands of people. May those thousands, tens of thousands, warm themselves in the same sun that shines for me, may they enjoy the same happiness that has been lavished on me.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No sooner does one rise a little above one's own petty joys and pains, than crystal clear wellsprings of new joy and new pain open up.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“even if he brought me the worst unhappiness, even if he should cause my soul to age terribly, there's one thing that he could never kill inside me-my striving for higher things, my ardent longing for the mountain peak.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Long and sorrowful stretched out those days.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The moment had passed, and, disquieted, she walked away from me, carrying within her an ocean of pain and happiness, a wild storm of conflict and struggle.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She looked at me and yet she did not see me.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I lie awake with open eyes during sleepless nights and look at them in cold surprise, and I seek to understand how these strange, distant people could have once been so close and dear to me. What magical thread bound me to them? And how had they severed that thread? And why was this all so alien and meaningless to me now?”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I already had a lover at that time, and whenever a letter from him arrived it brought with it light, lustre, and profound happiness, transforming all the days that followed into one long uninterrupted holiday. I remember one of those days with particular clarity. I'd just been handed a letter from my lover and secluded myself in one of the hidden corners at the far end of the garden to read it. I drank down the words like strong, intoxicating wine; a wave of hot joy enveloped me entirely.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“During the whole journey I thought about my mother. Somehow I now found her easier to understand; I felt closer to her-she had been transformed into a sister in suffering.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Drunk from the bitter truth,/I refuse all other wine.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Somewhere in the world, in a city/I am flowering like a lily.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want, angry and tender one,”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Say this: until her death”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She of the cold marble breasts”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know that my devils have knives instead of teeth, and snakes instead of fingers. I can't do very much about that. I can't just get rid of them.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The creative person wears a mask... just like a sculptor wears an apron.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The authentic artist carries within himself another world to which the ordinary person has no access. The great value of the poet is that he enriches us with new, thoroughly experienced feelings, with unseen or differently seen landscapes.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why must one rhyme?... My work demands otherwise. I require bad rhymes because I don't want good ones... I know shvayg rhymes with tsvayg and shtayg; lebn with shvebn and shtrebn; himl with driml... but I require something different. I am insulted by the mechanical precision of the conventional rhyme. Somewhere, perhaps in only one syllable, the words should agree. I want the third and fourth lines to be subtly evocative of the first line with the colour of a word, with a sound that is but a shadow, a pale echo of the previously used sound.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am now old and weary. Life storms and seethes just as before, casting incandescent yearnings into human souls, summoning them to happiness and suffering, but life no longer knocks on my door: its waves do not reach as far as my threshold. I have already drained my glass to the very dregs. I am weary. My lonely days, my sleepless nights, pass in peaceful silence-without joy, without pain, without desire. With each new day and each passing night I creep one step closer to eternal peace and calm-to death. And the closer I get to death the more intently my gaze lingers on my tear-soaked, paper-garland-crowned youth. During sleepless nights I see, paraded before me, the shadows of those who bore light or shade in my soul, causing it to quake out of love or hatred.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What was she trying to tell me? Did she want to say that life was empty and grey, pitiless in its ordinariness? Like a wicked serpent life wraps its coils around your airy dreams and winged desires, smothering them with its venomous breath, killing them on the spot before they have a chance to bloom. Your struggles will be in vain, your attempts to free yourself from the ordinary, to rise above-life will ridicule and crush you without mercy. Is that what she wanted to say? Or did she want to say that love is small and ephemeral?-A pale spark against the dark back-drop of life; flashing but for a moment, only to vanish in the thick darkness? It cannot open up cloudless, starlit skies; cannot pour blue light over the cloudy paths of life. It is easily extinguished with only a little water; even its purist flame does not burn eternal. Is that what she wanted to say? Or perhaps she wanted to remind me that however beautiful and jubilant life can be, however brightly the sun of love can shimmer, embracing you with its gentle rays, there will always be, standing behind your shoulder, a merciless enemy as old as life itself-death. It stands behind you as you stretch out your hand toward the happiness calling out to you nearby; as you lie in the arms of your ardent beloved and dream of eternity; as you begin a great project and in passionate desires see it through to its end-it is always there behind you, with a cold smile on its bony face, ready to steal away your life, your love, your creative accomplishments-What was she trying to tell me?”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source