"The grasses wave wherever you look,
silent and patient under the sky.
You lie down in them, you fall asleep in them,
you even find your way home they will grow back."
Hrubín was one of the few poets who could express the human desire for beauty even in simple symbols. He wrote this poem at a time when the stifling atmosphere of the 1950s weighed heavily on him. The author, who throughout his founding yearned for inner balance, purity and harmony, finds in the word "grass" not only a sign of indestructibility, but a sign of renewal and permanence. Hrubín was inspired to write these verses by a meeting with the painter Ota Janeček, who supplemented this text with several graphic artists. In this way, an almost bibliophilic press was created, in which the written word and visual art form a single artistic component.
Prague, Nibiru, 2003, 44 pages, 80-902726-4-9 bound, new.