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Morris Rosenfeld Quotes

1862–1923 Poland

Morris Rosenfeld (born Moshe Yankev Chmielowski; December 28, 1862 – June 22, 1923) was a Jewish writer of Yiddish poetry.

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Random Morris Rosenfeld quote

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When the work will have killed him another will be sitting in his place and sewing.

It was in the damp, dark sweatshops of New York where I learned to sing of oppression, suffering and misery. During the day I worked and at night I wrote my poems.

The Poet of the Ghetto (1998)

The tick of the clock is the Boss in his anger!
The face of the clock has the eyes of a foe;
The clock—Oh, I shudder—dost hear how it drives me?
It calls me “Machine!” and it cries to me “Sew!”

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Morris Rosenfeld (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.