A young poet suddenly falls silent for fear of telling the … - Leah Goldberg

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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

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Leah Goldberg or Lea Goldberg (Hebrew: לאה גולדברג; May 29, 1911, Königsberg – January 15, 1970, Jerusalem) was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, illustrater and painter, and comparative literary researcher.

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Native Name: לאה גולדברג

Alternative Names: Lea Goldberg

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The world is heavy on our eyelids

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.

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

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

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