Premchand (1880–1936) Hindi writer
In his novel Ghar Jamai quoted in page= 92.
Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique
“I am my father's father,
You are your children's guilt.
In history's pity and terror
The child is Aeneas again;
Troy is in the nursery,
The rocking horse is on fire.
Child labor! The child must carry
His fathers on his back.”
"The Ballad of the Children of the Czar" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ballad-of-the-children-of-the-czar/ <br class="br">Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge (1959)
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You are your children's guilt.
In history's pity and terror
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Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist
Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings (1998).
“Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Der Erlkönig
Der Erlkönig (1782)
Context: Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.
He holds the boy in the crook of his arm
He holds him safe, he keeps him warm.
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) French artist and painter
Chagall stated this in 1950
as quoted in From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture, Matthew B. Hoffman; Stanford University Press, 2007, p. 219
after 1930
