first lines of "About Myself", translated from Hebrew by Rachel Tzvia Back. Included in Lea Goldberg: Selected Poetry and Drama (2005)
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My days are engraved in my poems
like years in the rings of a tree
like the years of my life in the furrows of my brow
— Leah Goldberg
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "My days are engraved in my poems
like years in the rings of a tree
like the years of my life in the furrows of my brow" in the context of "first lines of "About Myself", translated from Hebrew by Rachel Tzvia Back. Included in Lea Goldberg: Selected Poetry and Drama (2005)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Leah Goldberg
Leah Goldberg or Lea Goldberg (Hebrew: ืืื ืืืืืืจื; May 29, 1911, Kรถnigsberg โ January 15, 1970, Jerusalem) was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, illustrater and painter, and comparative literary researcher.
About Leah Goldberg
Leah Goldberg or Lea Goldberg (Hebrew: ืืื ืืืืืืจื; May 29, 1911, Kรถnigsberg โ January 15, 1970, Jerusalem) was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, illustrater and painter, and comparative literary researcher.
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