"Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly……" — Marina Tsvetaeva
"Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not."
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Marina Tsvetaeva
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18 Quotes by Marina Tsvetaeva
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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…
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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and…
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How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.
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The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.
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I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl…
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What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in…
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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,…
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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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However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest…
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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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And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
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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…
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When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
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Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly…
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What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what…
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Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of…
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