Lajos Kassák

Lajos Kassák (March 21, 1887 – July 22, 1967) was a Hungarian poet, novelist and painter.

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• the roads lay under us in white quilts
  the telegraph-wires jerked tight and wrote
         mantras on the sky
  • "A ló meghal a madarak kirepülnek" ("The Horse Dies the Birds Fly Away"), 1922, translated by Edwin Morgan

• at night we glimpsed the flowers blooming between women's legs
  but we were vegetarians and misogynists
  • "A ló meghal a madarak kirepülnek" ("The Horse Dies the Birds Fly Away"), 1922, translated by Edwin Morgan

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• The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

External links

• The Horse Dies the Birds Fly Away, complete English translation