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Jaroslav Seifert was a Nobel Prize–winning Czechoslovak writer, poet and journalist.

In 1984 Jaroslav Seifert won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man". Wikipedia  

✵ 23. September 1901 – 10. January 1986
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Jaroslav Seifert Quotes

“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.”

Jaroslav Seifert

Transformations translated by Edward Osers
An Apple from your Lap (1933)

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