Long ago I left heroics to the heroes Peter Weiss More Quotes by Peter Weiss More Quotes From Peter Weiss Against Nature's silence I use action In the vast indifference I invent a meaning I don't watch unmoved I intervene and say that this and this are wrong and I work to alter them and improve them The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes Peter Weiss silence eye hair However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals. Peter Weiss midst business trying In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers. Peter Weiss embrace hero desire So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness Peter Weiss bleeding bread christ Don't soil your pretty little shoes The gutter's deep and red Climb up climb up and ride along with me the tumbrel driver said But she never said a word never turned her head Don't soil your pretty little pants I only go one way Climb up climb up and ride along with me There's no gold coach today But she never said a word never turned her head Peter Weiss gutters shoes gold