Marina Tsvetaeva Quotes

Don't you know no one can escape
the power of creatures reaching out
with breath alone?

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There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

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I opened my veins. Unstoppably
life 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 nourish
the rushes unstoppably
without cure, gushes
poetry ...

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I have two enemies in all the world,
Two twins, inseparably fused:
The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.

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

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