Bertolt Brecht1898–1956- A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949), ¶ 73
- The Threepenny Opera (1928), Act 3, scene 1 (Peachum)
- The Trial of Lucullus (1940), Brecht Collected Plays, vol. 4, p. 386.
- Posthumous publication
- The Mother (1930)
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
“To Those Born Later”, part of the Svendborg Poems (1939)- Essays on the Art of Theater (1954).
Spring is noticed, if at all
By people sitting in railway trains.“Concerning spring” [Über das Frühjahr] (1928), Uhu, Berlin, IV, 6 (March 1928); trans. Christopher Middleton in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 158Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
The Singer, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1944), PrologueOh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
“Song about my mother” [Lied von meiner Mutter], from “Thirteen Psalms” (1920), trans. Christopher Middleton in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 40
