To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch.

Theodor Adorno

Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft

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Topic

Poetry Auschwitz The Holocaust

Author

Theodor Adorno

Source

Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft

Medium

Essay

Language

German

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

Germany Europe

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Citation

Adorno, Theodor. "Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft [An Essay on Cultural Criticism and Society]." Prismen, GS 10.1, 1955. Reprinted in Prisms, translated by Samuel and Shierry Weber. MIT Press, 1967.

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A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai Stevenson

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Topic
Nature of freedom Freedom Political theory
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Adlai Stevenson
Medium
Speech
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1952 1950s 20th century
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Stevenson, Adlai. "Safeguards Against Communism." 7 Oct. 1952, Masonic Temple, Detroit, MI, USA.

Another quote about Poetry

I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze.

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Topic
Immortality through art Artistic legacy Art Poetry

Author

Horace
Source
Odes (Horace)
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Boast
Language
Latin
Time
23 BC 20s BC 1st century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 30.

Current Citation

Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk, 3, no. 30.

Another quote originally in German

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ecce Homo

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Ecce Homo
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1908 1900s 20th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist [Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is]. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1908.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, translated by Duncan Large. Oxford University Press, 2009.