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Leah Goldberg
6 quotes
“My days are engraved in my poems like years in the rings of a tree like the years of my life in the furrows of my brow”
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: first lines of "About Myself", translated from Hebrew by Rachel Tzvia Back. Included in Lea Goldberg: Selected Poetry and Drama (2005)
“death. Its weight is not great. How lightly and with what casual grace we carry it with us everywhere we go.”
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: fragment from "The Eighth Part (At Least) of Everything", collected in The Remains of Life (1978). Translation from the Hebrew by Robert Friend in Burning Air and a Clear Mind: Contemporary Israeli Women Poets edited by…
“A young poet suddenly falls silent for fear of telling the truth. An old poet falls silent for fear the best in a poem is its lie.”
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: poem collected in The Remains of Life (1978). Translated from Hebrew by Rachel Tzvia Back and included in Lea Goldberg: Selected Poetry and Drama (2005)
“The years have made up my face with memories of loves and have adorned my hair with light silver threads making me most beautiful. In my eyes are reflected the landscapes. And paths I have trod have straightened my stride – tired and lovely steps. If you should see me now you would not recognize your yesterdays – I am walking toward myself with a face you searched for in vain when I was walking toward you.”
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Toward Myself" collected in With the Night (1964). Translated from Hebrew by Rachel Tzvia Back and included in Lea Goldberg: Selected Poetry and Drama (2005)
“How the passing of Time tries me, its double reckoning my duty and my right: Every day it constructs and ruins me completing thus my life and my death.”
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time" collected in Lightning in the Morning (1955). Translated from Hebrew by Rachel Tzvia Back and included in Lea Goldberg: Selected Poetry and Drama (2005)
“The world is heavy on our eyelids”
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: translated from Hebrew by Rachel Tzvia Back. First line of poem and included in Lea Goldberg: Selected Poetry and Drama (2005) in the section "Early Poems