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• I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.
• Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.
• Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear…
• My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.
• And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And…
• A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.
• Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.
• Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with…
• I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.
• Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie…
• Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our…
• Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.

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