Jaroslav Seifert
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Jaroslav Seifert (23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984.
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Quotes[edit]
An Apple from your Lap (1933)[edit]
- 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.- Transformations translated by Edward Osers