Poem by A. Sutzkever ווער וועט בלייבן 

נײן, ס׳איז מיר װײַט ניט גענוג.

Avraham Sutzkever is among the strongest of writers I know. Here's perhaps his most well-known & in any case wondrous poem - & recording of his own marvelous reading of its shining words. Aeeii how we all should write should speak should live every word every every act everything with as much intent strength caring passion co{m}passion as though the entire universe depends upon it - as Sutzkever intones declaims his poem! - - - Indeed, Who will last? And what? And while still here - as Thoreau writes: Where I Lived & What I Lived For ~ ! --- Here's the poem in Cynthia Ozick's translation: Poems from a Diary - 1974 ~ Who will last? And what? The wind will stay -- and the blind man's blindness when he's gone away -- and a thread of foam - a sign of the sea - and a bit of cloud snarled in a tree. - - Who will last? And what? A word as green -- as Genesis, making grasses grow. -- And what the prideful rose might mean -- Seven of those grasses know. - - Of all that northflung starry stuff -- the star descended in the tear will last. -- In its jar, a drop of wine stands fast. -- Who lasts? God abides - isn't that enough?

דאס ליד איז געבליבן.