General, your tank is a powerful vehicle, A poem by Bertolt Brecht (not me!) |
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle, A poem by Bertolt Brecht (not me!) |
Mar 12 2009, 10:42 PM
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I found this poem by Bertolt Brecht, a German writer. It's short and simple, but provocative:
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests & crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful it flies faster than a storm & carries more than an elephant. but it has one defect: it needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly & he can kill. but he has one defect: He can think. There's another quote that's variably attributed to Brecht, or Vladimir Mayakovsky, that I found interesting: "Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it." |
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Mar 17 2009, 05:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 5,166 Joined: Oct 2007 Member No: 585,858 |
y go fine ppl poem n post hur..
dat shiet borren.. mak u poemm yuu |
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