In memory of Tin Ujević

Augustin Josip Ujević was known in literature as Tin Ujević, or even better, just Tin. He was a poet and bohemian and, as the Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Ante Stamać once said, without a doubt, the greatest poet in Croatian literature of the twentieth century.

Tonight, my forehead gleams

and sweat drips in each eye;

my thoughts blaze through dreams,

tonight, of beauty I shall die.

The soul's core is passion deep

in night's abyss, a blazing cone.

Hush, weep in silence. Let us weep

and let us die. We'll die alone.

Tin Ujević died on 12 November 1955 in Zagreb.