Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.
“If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.”
“I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.”