The Words Of A Master: Quoting Gunter Grass

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The cover quote is from  here.

  Now that the rich have unity,
  they are unable to have a mature nation.
  The poor...who were sure of themselves
  as a nation when they didn’t have a state,
  are only good for resistance
  and lack democratic maturity.

  As a result, we have runaway immaturity.

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  If something inexplicable happens, madness explains it.
  Madness is the lid that fits every pot.
  It is the sublime madness
  that lends wings to love.

"To this madness, to our madness and its melody,
   I say yes and again yes.”
  Call of The Toad

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

The Gunter Grass sculpture

is from  there.

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