Abba Kovner Professions : Poet Born : March 14, 1918 Died : September 25, 1987 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Abba Kovner I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain. Abba Kovner experience want world We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter. Abba Kovner patriotic freedom taken Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors