Jaroslav Seifert Quotes

• If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical manoeuvre. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

  Jaroslav Seifert

  Lying, Ordinary, May

  "Nhetembo".

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• Everything on earth has happened before,
  nothing is new,
  but woe to the lovers
  who fail to discover a fresh blossom
  in every future kiss.

  Jaroslav Seifert

  Kissing, Earth, Woe

  Jaroslav Seifert, Ewald Osers, George Gibian (1998). “The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert”, p.89, Catbird Press

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