“A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.”
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“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
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you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
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“Where to start?
Everything cracks and shakes,
The air trembles with similes,
No one world's better than another;
the earth moans with metaphors.”
― Selected Poems
Everything cracks and shakes,
The air trembles with similes,
No one world's better than another;
the earth moans with metaphors.”
― Selected Poems
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