Lajos Kassák Quotes

Lajos Kassák was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde, and occasional translator. He was among the first genuine working-class writers in Hungarian literature. Self-taught, he became a writer within the socialist movement and published journals important to the radical intellectual culture of Budapest in the early 1900s.

Although he cannot be fully identified with any single avant-garde movement, he adopted elements of expressionism, futurism and dadaism. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. March 1887 – 22. July 1967
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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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