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Marina Tsvetaeva Quotes

Marina Tsvetaeva quotes

Russian Poet October 9, 1892 – August 31, 1941

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Tonight - I am alone in the night, a homeless and sleepless nun! Tonight I hold all the keys to thisthe only capital cityand lack of sleep guides me on my path. You are so lovely, my dusky Kremlin! Tonight I put my lips to the breastof the whole round and warring earth. Now I feel hair - like fur - standing on end: the stifling winds blow straight into my soul. Tonight I feel compassion for everyone, those who are pitied, along with those who are kissed. Marina Tsvetaeva
Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping. In the cradle a child is screaming. An old man sits over his death, and anyoneyoung enough talks to his love, breathesinto her lips, looks into her eyes. Marina Tsvetaeva
What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all this immensity in a measured world? Marina Tsvetaeva
After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you smile to people. And arrows moan in the slow arteries. After a sleepless night the arms get weaker. And deeply equal to you are the friend and foe. Smells like Florence in the frost, and in each. Sudden sound is the whole rainbow. Tenderly light the lips, and the shadow's golden. Near the sunken eyes. Here the night has sparked. This brilliant likeness - and from the dark night.... Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva quote: "My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on..."
My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection. Marina Tsvetaeva
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? Marina Tsvetaeva
The forbidden cabinet. The forbidden fruit. That fruit is—a volume, a huge blue-lilac volume with a gold inscription slantwise: Collected Works of A.S. Pushkin. I read the fat Pushkin in the cabinet with my nose in the book and on the shelf, almost in darkness and almost right up against it and even a little bit suffocated by his weight that came right into the throat, and almost blinded by the nearness of the tiny letters. I read Pushkin right into the chest and right into the brain. Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva quote: "Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures..."
Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone? Marina Tsvetaeva
What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves. Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva quote: "No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did..."
No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? Marina Tsvetaeva
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 ... Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva quote: "Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On..."
Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight. Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva quote: "And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never..."
And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it. Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva quote: "However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest...."
However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity. Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva quote: "I have two foes in the world, twins inextricably interrelated..."
I have two foes in the world, twins inextricably interrelated -- the hunger of the hungry and the glut of the glutted! Marina Tsvetaeva

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