Marina Tsvetaeva Quotes

• An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Feelings, Needs, Observation

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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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  Wings, Weight, Flight

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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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  Change, Live Life, Book

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• Me niego a serlo. En
  el manicomio de lo inhumano
  me niego a vivir.
  Con los lobos del mercado
  me niego a aullar.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Nazism, Rebellion, Howl

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.159, Carcanet

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• I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

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  Rayos de luna

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• Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

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  Men, Mistress, Lovers

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• However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.

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  Looks, Forests, Eternity

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• I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps,
  Of two dark moons.

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  Dark, Moon, Two

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• Think about me lightly,
  think of me, and forget.

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  Thinking, Forget, Think Of Me

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• My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

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  Dream, Communication, World

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• One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

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  Book, Writing, Suffering

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2017). “Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922”, p.154, New York Review of Books

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• What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.

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  Love, Passion, Knowing

  "The House at Old Pimen". Essay by Marina Tsvetaeva, ch. 2, 1934.

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

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  Sonido

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• No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

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  Women, Book, Rivers

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• And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.

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  Sleep, Earth

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.31, Carcanet

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• In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

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  Christian, World, Poet

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• For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

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  Records, Tales, Spells

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• How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.

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  Writing, Quiet, Printing

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• My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

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  Thank You, Taken, Office

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.148, Carcanet

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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.

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  Eye, Dark, Night

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• The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.

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  Firsts, Burned, Hottest

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

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  Reaching, Reach Out, Creatures

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• 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?

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  Inspiration, Black, World

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.86, Carcanet

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• ¿Qué es esta pasión gitana por la separación, esta disposición a salir corriendo cuando acabamos de conocernos? Apoyando la cabeza en las manos, me doy cuenta, mirando a la noche, de que nadie que revise nuestras cartas ha comprendido aún cuán completa y profundamente infieles somos, es decir: cuán fieles somos a nosotros mismos.

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  Passion, Night, Hands

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet

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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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  Black, Veins, Earth

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.142, Carcanet

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