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For the way of the comets is the poet's way.

Selected Poems

The eclipses ofpoets are not foretold in the calender.

Selected Poems

I opened my veins. Unstoppablylife spurts out with no remedy.Now I set out bowls and plates.Every bo...

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Selected Poems

Somewhere in the night ahuman being is drowning.

Selected Poems

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

Сводные тетради

I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how...

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Letters

I am a moonbeam free to go whenever I choose.

(Everyday life is like a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.)

Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...

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One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on you...

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Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries

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Marina Tsvetaeva

Poet

Born: 1892-10-08

Died: 1941-08-31

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (8 October 1892, Moscow – 31 August 1941, Yelabuga, Tatarstan) was a Russian poet and writer.More