Selected Poems Quotes

“[...]
And Faust knows
that he will not speak of it,
and if so only by a comma,
only by a word in a big new book.
It is really something like
a coat of grey fur over the soul,
like the uniform the unknown soldier
wears inside him.
And so he goes and starts a painting,
or a gay little song,
or a big new book.
Nothing has happened but we
always saw if coming
All in all India ink
is the blood's first sister
and song is just as final
as life and death
and equally without allegory,
without transcendence
and without fuss.”
― Miroslav Holub, Selected Poems