Source: "Die Menschen können nicht ohne Hoffnung leben" (one of his last interviews), Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (February 11, 2002)
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.”
Source: Work Without Hope (1825), l. 9.
Context: Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
“As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.”
With the century, vol. 5
Part i, canto ii.
Lucile (1860)
“One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Foreword, p. vii (opening words).
