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Marina Tsvetaeva
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“I have two enemies in all the world, / Two twins, inseparably pooled: / The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.”
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“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”
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“[On Moscow:] In this city of wonder / this peaceful city / I shall be joyful, even / when I am dead.”
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“Forget us, children. Our conscience / need not belong to you. / You can be free to write the tale / of your own days and passions.”
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“The wind is level now, the earth is wet with dew, / the storm of stars in the sky will turn to quiet. / And soon all of us will sleep beneath the earth, we / who never let each other sleep above it.”
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“How completely and / how deeply faithless we are, which is / to say: how true we are to ourselves.”
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“The gold that was my hair has turned / silently to gray. Don't pity me! / Everything's been realized, / in my breast all's blended and attuned.”
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“In this most Christian of all worlds / The poet's a Jew.”
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“We are fishes swimming / In the same sea.”
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“... poet, once you're given a voice, / From you all else is taken.”
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“My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.”
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“An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.”
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“My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.”
Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet
(1892 - 1941)
Full name: Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva.