In his romantic world-love Yvan Goll [links] belonged to the poets cut from much harder wood, like Rubiner or even like Leonard Frank.

He saw the world as there to be made happy, his sincere sensibilty as a poet and as a man could not endure life's true reality of incredible brutality and cannibalism.

He tried to affirm as we all tried to, the world of human values. His life's theme was love, brotherly love for his fellow man.