All my life I have been faithful to love.
Jaroslav Seifert Quotes
If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.
Similar Quotes
Cricket is the greatest game that the wit of man has yet devised.
- Sir Pelham WarnerAdvertising is selling Twinkies to adults.
- Donald R. VanceThe struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompt...
- Herb GoldbergEach generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the ...
- Francis SchaefferEach had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had don...
- Ernst TollerComments on: "Jaroslav Seifert Quotes: If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If..."
| Birth: | 23rd September, 1901 |
| Death: | 10th January, 1986 |
| Nationality: | Czech |
| Profession: | Journalist, Poet |
About
Jaroslav Seifert was born in Žižkov, Czechoslovakia. He was a Czechoslovak poet and journalist. In 1984, he 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". He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, the editor of a number of communist newspapers and magazines- Rovnost, Sršatec, and Reflektor- and the employee of a communist publishing house. He subsequently worked as a journalist in the social-democratic and trade union press during the 1930s and 1940s. In 1949, he left journalism and began to devote himself exclusively to literature. He was the official Chairman of the Czechoslovak Writer's Union from 1968–70. He wrote several books include: The Plague Column(poem), An Umbrella from Piccadilly(poem), The Casting of Bells, Mozart in Prague, Eight Days, The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert(poem), and The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert(poem).
Share with your friends