01UndatedOne should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.Marina Tsvetaeva / quote ↗
02UndatedDon't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?Marina Tsvetaeva / quote ↗
03UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
04UndatedThere 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 / quote ↗
05UndatedWings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.Marina Tsvetaeva / quote ↗
06Undated(Everyday life is like a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.)Marina Tsvetaeva / quote ↗
07UndatedI want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how unequivocal, how exactly what it says. Just – sleep. And nothing more. No, another thing: and know right into the deepest sleep that it is you. And more: how your heart sounds. And – kiss your heart.Marina Tsvetaeva / quote ↗