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Jaroslav Seifert

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All my life I have been faithful to love.


— Jaroslav Seifert


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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


#love #poetry #love

But to cast my life away just like that for nothing at all -- that I won’t do.


— Jaroslav Seifert


#poetry #life

There was a war all over the world and all over the world was grief. And yet I whispered into jewelled ears verses of love. It makes me feel ashamed. But no, not really.


— Jaroslav Seifert


#poetry #war #love

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


— Jaroslav Seifert


#maneuver #may #ordinary #ordinary person #person






About Jaroslav Seifert

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Did you know about Jaroslav Seifert?

He was one of the founders of the journal Devětsil. His poetry was awarded important state prizes in 1936 1955 and 1968 and in 1967 he was designated National Artist. Born in Žižkov a suburb of Prague in what was then part of Austria-Hungary his first collection of poems was publiJaroslav Seifertd in 1921.

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