Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. B
  4. Bertolt Brecht
  5. Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been...

Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

Bertolt Brecht
Men, Hands, Knives
Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.192, Taylor & Francis
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me