Sound Quote by Marina Tsvetaeva

“Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.” quote by Marina Tsvetaeva — Download Open image

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

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“At the skin, my blood calls out to your heart, my whole sky craves an island of tenderness. My rivers tilt towards you.”

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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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“The forbidden cabinet. The forbidden fruit. That fruit is—a volume, a huge blue-lilac volume with a gold inscription slantwise: Collected Works of A.S. Pushkin. I read the fat Pushkin in the cabinet with my nose in the book and on the shelf, almost in darkness and almost right up against it and even a little bit suffocated by his weight…

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

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In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

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

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“A shoe's material - leather - is calculable and finite. work of art's material (not sound, not word, not stone, not canvas, but spirit) is incalculable and infinite. There are no shoes once for always. Every last line of Sappho is once for always. This is why (calculability of material) boots held by the bootmaker are in better hands than…

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“Your name is a -- bird in my hand a piece of -- ice on the tongue one single movement of the lips. Your name is: five signs, a ball caught in flight, a silver bell in the mouth a stone, cast in a quiet pool makes the splash of your name, and the sound is in the clatter of…

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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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