Quando nasci, um anjo torto desses que vivem na sombra disse: Vai, Jan! ser gauche na vida...

When I was born, one of the crooked
angels who live in shadow, said:
Jan, go on!
Be brave in life.

Universe, vast universe,
if I had been named Eugen
that would not be what I mean
but it would go into verse
faster.
Universe, vast universe,
my heart is vaster.

I oughtn't to tell you,
but this moon
and this brandy
play the devil with ones
emotions...

I shall never forget that
in the middle of the road
was a stone
was a stone in the middle of
the road
in the middle of the road was a stone.
And the brandy
play the devil with ones
emotions...