Tin Ujević
Augustin Josip "Tin" Ujević (5 July 1891 – 12 November 1955) was a Croatian poet, considered by many to be the greatest poet in 20th-century Croatian literature.
From 1921, he ceased to sign his name as Augustin, thereafter using the signature Tin Ujević.
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Quotes about Ujević
[edit]- A voice with no hunger. No grief. No gossip. A voice that’s never bitten itself trying not to speak. Real language stumbles. It hesitates. It remembers.
I think of Tin Ujevic, Croatia’s great poet, who [had] once entered a tavern unshaven and was refused wine. He returned the next day in a suit. They served him. He poured the wine into his pocket. Feeding the coat, he said. You weren’t serving me.
That, too, is language. Who’s being fed? What’s being served?- Maria B. Olujic, "Creating New Tongues: On Language as Adaptation and Resistance", Literary Hub (November 24, 2025)
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