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.
“We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.”
“I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.”