Seifert Jaroslav Quotes

#1. Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science.

Philip Abelson

#2. How bloated we all are to think that our childhoods matter, that anybody really cares about our little lives.

James St. James

#3. But to cast my life away just like that
for nothing at all
that
I won't do.

Jaroslav Seifert

#4. Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

Loretta Lynn

#5. The worst is yet to come:
I'm still alive.

Jaroslav Seifert

#6. The most beautiful people, ones whose beauty is only rivaled by what is inside of them, are the ones who are quietly unaware of it. (page 315)

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. All my life I have been faithful to love.

Jaroslav Seifert

#8. When I was hungry
I fed almost daily
on the words of her songs.

Jaroslav Seifert

#9. Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.

Aaron Rodgers

#10. Everything on earth has happened before,
nothing is new,
but woe to the lovers
who fail to discover a fresh blossom
in every future kiss.

Jaroslav Seifert

#11. There was a war all over the world
and all over the world
was grief.
And yet I whispered into jewelled ears
verses of love.
It makes me feel ashamed.
But no, not really.

Jaroslav Seifert

#12. 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

#13. If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

Jaroslav Seifert