Jaroslav Seifert Quotes

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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

A lad changed to a shrub in spring,
the shrub into a shepherd boy,
A fine hair to a lyre string,
snow into snow on hair piled high.

Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert

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Born: September 23, 1901

Died: January 10, 1986 (aged 84)

Bio: Jaroslav Seifert was a Nobel Prize winning Czechoslovak writer, poet and journalist.

Known for:

The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
The Casting of Bells (1983)
Eight Days : An Elegy for Thomas Masaryk (1985)
The Plague Column (1979)
The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert (1986)

Jaroslav Seifert on Wikipedia

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