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Poems were created in the ghettos, and even at the threshold of the crematoria. As long as there is life, the human heart will never cease singing of its joys and sorrows.

— Chava Rosenfarb Confessions of a Yiddish Writer (1973)

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Creativity is a life-affirming activity. Lack of response to creativity and being condemned to write for the desk drawer is a stifling, destructive experience.

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There are times in life when muteness is the only appropriate language.

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The crowd was in good spirits, convivial and singing, and for a while the troubles of the world seemed far away.

Letters to Blume Lempel (1982)

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