If Dogs Could Talk Poem by gershon hepner

IF DOGS COULD TALK


If dogs could talk we might well not consider them as friends;
if people didn't we might well regard them to be that,
but there's one animal that doesn't talk which clearly sends,
without the use of words, true messages: it's called a cat.


Karel Capek (1890-1930) wrote this:

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

Madeleine Albright, in "By the Book" NYT,4/29/12) , when asked "If you could meet any writer, dead or alive, who would it be? " responded:

Karel Capek, a favorite of my parents, first to write about robots, and author of "War With the Newts." Little known now, but a profoundly intelligent and humane writer at a time and place,1930s Europe, when beasts were at the door.

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