Jaroslav Seifert Quotes

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

Lying, Ordinary, May

"Nhetembo".

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.

Kissing, Earth, Woe

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