10 Quotes by Marina Tsvetaeva about poetry
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Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?
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I’m kissing you now — acrossThe gap of a thousand years.
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One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
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The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.
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I opened my veins. Unstoppablylife spurts out with no remedy.Now I set out bowls and plates.Every bowl will be shallow.Every plate will be small.And overflowing their rims,into the black earth, to nourishthe rushes unstoppablywithout cure, gushespoetry ...
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I - am. You - will be. An abyss between us. I drink. You thirst. In vain we try to agree.Ten years between us, a hundred thousand Years between us. - God builds no bridges.Be! - that's my commandment! Let me pass So that my breath doesn't hinder your growth.I - am. You - will be. Some ten springs from now,You'll say : - I am! - and I will say : - once was...
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After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker,Becomes dear but no one’s — not even your own.
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Под рокот гражданских бурь,В лихую годину,Даю тебе имя — мир,В наследье — лазурь.Отыйди, отыйди, Враг!Храни, Триединый,Наследницу вечных благМладенца Ирину!8 сентября 1918To clamour of civil strife,in times that are evil,I give you a name that's - peace,an heirloom - blue skies,Get thee hence, Satan! - So preserve, O Redeemer, from whom all blessings flow,the infant Irina!
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I’ll rise up as a poem…
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