To S. Preobrazhenski No people are uninteresting. Their destinies are like histories of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and no planet is like another. And if someone lives in obscurity, befriending that obscurity, he is interesting to people by his very obscurity.…
4 tygodnie temu
Like a reminder of this life of trams, sun, sparrows, and the flighty uncontrolledness of streams leaping like thermometers, and because ducks are quacking somewhere above the crackling of the last, paper-thin ice, and because children are crying bitterly…
4 tygodnie temu
To D.G. I have been wounded so often and so painfully, dragging my way home at the merest crawl, impaled not only by malicious tongues— one can be wounded even by a petal.…
4 tygodnie temu
We can’t stand sitting still. We try, no holds barred, to be liked by ourselves, friends, the opposition, and the authorities (I no longer even speak about women).…
4 tygodnie temu
To B. Akhmadulina My love will come, will fold me in her arms, will notice all the changes, will understand my apprehensions. From the pouring dark, the infernal gloom, forgetting to close the taxi door, she’ll dash up the rickety steps all flushed with joy and longing.…
4 tygodnie temu
No, I’ll not take the half of anything! Give me the whole sky! The far-flung earth! Seas and rivers and mountain avalanches— All these are mine! I’ll accept no less!…
4 tygodnie temu
My love will come will fling open her arms and fold me in them, will understand my fears, observe my changes. In from the pouring dark, from the pitch night without stopping to bang the taxi door she’ll run upstairs through the decaying porch…
4 tygodnie temu
I fell out of love: that’s our story’s dull ending, as flat as life is, as dull as the grave. Excuse me—I’ll break off the string of this love song and smash the guitar. We have nothing to save. The puppy is puzzled. Our furry small monster…
4 tygodnie temu
No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicle of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet. And if a man lived in obscurity making his friends in that obscurity obscurity is not uninteresting.…
4 tygodnie temu