Freedom—a drunken whore
Sprawling in a power maddened soldier’s arms.

Marina Tsvetaeva


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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 Tsvetaeva


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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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Io posso amare solo la persona che in una giornata di primavera a me preferirà una betulla.

Marina Tsvetaeva


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Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.

In the cradle a child is screaming.

An old man sits over his death, and anyone

young enough talks to his love, breathes

into her lips, looks into her eyes.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Tags: insomnia



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Tonight - I am alone in the night,
a homeless and sleepless nun!
Tonight I hold all the keys to this
the only capital city

and lack of sleep guides me on my path.
You are so lovely, my dusky Kremlin!
Tonight I put my lips to the breast
of 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

Tags: insomnia



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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
Only just one thing - the eyes - are growing dark.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Tags: insomnia



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

Marina Tsvetaeva

Tags: choice freedom



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Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Tags: wisdom aphorisms russian-poetry tsvetaeva



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How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.

Marina Tsvetaeva

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