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title: 'Carved stone: ''Az nem lehet, hogy annyi szív, hiába onta vért!!'' (Vörösmarty, Szózat)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hungary-szozat-stone-az-nem-lehet-1942/
description: 'A close photograph of a roughly shaped stone slab set in turf, with two lines of hand-cut capitals: ''AZ NEM LEHET, HOGY ANNYI SZÍV, HIÁBA ONTA VÉRT !!''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Carved stone: 'Az nem lehet, hogy annyi szív, hiába onta vért!!' (Vörösmarty, Szózat)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hungary-szozat-stone-az-nem-lehet-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hungary-szozat-stone-az-nem-lehet-1942.jpg)

# Carved stone: 'Az nem lehet, hogy annyi szív, hiába onta vért!!' (Vörösmarty, Szózat)

A close photograph of a roughly shaped stone slab set in turf, with two lines of hand-cut capitals: 'AZ NEM LEHET, HOGY ANNYI SZÍV, HIÁBA ONTA VÉRT !!'. The words are a famous couplet from Vörösmarty's 1836 national poem 'Szózat', so the monument borrows the standing of the national poet to give its message the weight of the nation's own voice.

## Text on the object

Original (Hungarian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
AZ NEM LEHET,
HOGY ANNYI SZÍV,
HIÁBA ONTA VÉRT !!
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
THAT CANNOT BE,
THAT SO MANY HEARTS
SHED THEIR BLOOD IN VAIN !!
```

Cut as three lines. Matches the couplet in Vörösmarty's 'Szózat', lines 'Az nem lehet, hogy annyi szív / Hiába onta vért'. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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