Collected Plays - Volume 1 Quotes

“Niye dışkınız yediğinizden hep daha iyi olsun ki? Yediklerinizi sağlayıp dışkılarınızı toplayanlar inandırmış sizi buna. Kendinizi beğenmişliğiniz sizi aptallaştırıyor.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Collected Plays - Volume 1

“MECH to Baal: Would you like some wine, Mr Baal? All take seats, Baal in the place of honour. Do you like crab? That’s a dead eel. PILLER to Mech: I’m very glad that the immortal poems of Mr Baal, which I had the honour of reading to you, have earned your approval. To Baal: You must publish your poetry. Mr Mech pays like a real patron of the arts. You’ll be able to leave your attic. MECH: I buy cinnamon wood. Whole forests of cinnamon float down the rivers of Brazil for my benefit. But I’ll also publish your poetry. EMILIE: You live in an attic? BAAL eating and drinking: 64 Klauckestrasse. MECH: I’m really too fat for poetry. But you’ve got the same-shaped head as a man in the Malayan Archipelago, who used to have himself driven to work with a whip. If he wasn’t grinding his teeth he couldn’t work.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Brecht Collected Plays: 1: Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England & 5 One Act Plays

“I discovered our dear poet in my office, a simple clerk.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Brecht Collected Plays: 1: Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England & 5 One Act Plays