Ocupation: Poet
Life: February 10, 1898 - August 14, 1956
Birthday: February 10
Death: August 14
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
source: "Brecht on Brecht: An Improvisation". Book by George Tabori, 1967.
topic: Art, War, Hands, Art Lovers