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The authentic artist carries within himself another world to which the ordinary person has no access. The great value of the poet is that he enriches us with new, thoroughly experienced feelings, with unseen or differently seen landscapes.

— Anna Margolin Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

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Drunk from the bitter truth,/I refuse all other wine.

Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

Somewhere in the world, in a city/I am flowering like a lily.

Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

Reality and dreams are weaving together, flowing into each other and I don't know where one ends and the other begins.

Long and sorrowful stretched out those days.

During Sleepless Nights (1909)

My books, my great friends, gaze down on me with quiet resentment, calling me to them.

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