“Spring is noticed, if at all
By people sitting in railway trains.”

—  Bertolt Brecht

"Concerning spring" [Über das Frühjahr] (1928), Uhu, Berlin, IV, 6 (March 1928); trans. Christopher Middleton in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 158
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)

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