Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert (23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984.

Quotes

An Apple from your Lap (1933)

• 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