Black Earth Quotes
- Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface. — Osip Mandelstam
- If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 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… — Marina Tsvetaeva
- February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring.… — Boris Pasternak
- But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or… — Rainer Maria Rilke