for the path of comets/ is the path of poets: they burn without warming,/ pick without cultivating. They are: an explosion, a breaking in
Marina TsvetaevaAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: russian
- Born: October 9, 1892
- Died: August 31, 1941
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