A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.