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.
My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence. - Marina Tsvetaeva
My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.
- Marina Tsvetaeva
However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity. - Marina Tsvetaeva
However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.
I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons. - Marina Tsvetaeva
I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.
Think about me lightly, think of me, and forget. - Marina Tsvetaeva
Think about me lightly, think of me, and forget.
I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl. - Marina Tsvetaeva
I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.
Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight. - Marina Tsvetaeva
Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.
Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love. - Marina Tsvetaeva
Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose. - Marina Tsvetaeva
I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.
Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone? - Marina Tsvetaeva
Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?
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