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Morris Rosenfeld
6 quotes
“It was in the damp, dark sweatshops of New York where I learned to sing of oppression, suffering and misery. During the day I worked and at night I wrote my poems.”
Morris Rosenfeld (1862–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Poet of the Ghetto (1998) by Edgar J Goldenthal
“The machines in the shop roar so wildly that often I forget in the roar that I am; I am lost in the terrible tumult, my ego disappears, I am a machine. I work, and work, and work without end; I am busy, and busy, and busy at all time. For what? and for whom? I know not, I ask not! How should a machine ever come to think?”
Morris Rosenfeld (1862–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The tick of the clock is the Boss in his anger! The face of the clock has the eyes of a foe; The clock—Oh, I shudder—dost hear how it drives me? It calls me “Machine!” and it cries to me “Sew!”
Morris Rosenfeld (1862–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the work will have killed him another will be sitting in his place and sewing.”
Morris Rosenfeld (1862–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have a little boy, a fine little fellow is he! When I see him, it appears to me the whole world is mine. Only rarely, rarely I see him, my pretty little son, when he is awake; I find him always asleep, I see him only at night. My work drives me out early and brings me home late; oh, my own flesh is a stranger to me! oh, strange to me the glances of my child!”
Morris Rosenfeld (1862–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seek me not 'mid blooming meadows, Not there my spirit can you trace, Where workers toil like spectral shadows, 'Tis there you’ll find my resting place. Seek me not where birds are singing, Not there my spirit can you trace, A slave am I, where chains are ringing, 'Tis there you’ll find my resting place. Seek me not 'mid fountains dashing, Not there my spirit can you trace, Where tears are falling, teeth are gnashing, 'Tis there you’ll find my resting place. And love’st thou me with love’s true passion Thy steps unto my spirit trace. Bring joy with thee; in love’s true fashion Make sweet to me my resting place.”
Morris Rosenfeld (1862–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source