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Marina Tsvetaeva

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    translated by
    DAVID McDUFF
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    His diligence with metre and rhyme is remarkably successful, and is the only proper tribute to the poet’s linguistic virtuosity.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    ‘It must be said right away that those who want to have an inkling of what Tsvetayeva is actually like, and that includes her form, her rhyme, and the tone of that accompanies form and rhyme, will have to go to McDuff.
  • Oralia Torreshas quoted5 years ago
    But for us whose hearts still care

    The map holds a location

    That’s void: our honour’s there.
  • Andrea Poulainhas quoted6 years ago
    Poems grow in the same way as stars and roses,

    Or beauty of no use to a family.

    To all the wreaths and apotheoses
  • Andrea Poulainhas quoted6 years ago
    May you live forever!

    Cherish your life.

    Only poets in bone

    Are as in a lie.
  • Andrea Poulainhas quoted6 years ago
    The demon in me’s not dead,

    He’s living, and well.

    In the body as in a hold,

    In the self as in a cell.
  • catalina creelhas quoted6 years ago
    This gypsy passion for parting!
    We just meet, but already take flight!
    My brow’s in my hands, I’m starting
    To think, looking out through the night
    That those who ransack our letters
    Have only perceived by halves
    How faithless we are, and that is –
    How faithful we are to ourselves.
  • catalina creelhas quoted6 years ago
    The rhymes and rhythms of Tsvetayeva’s poems serve a dual function: they are her main compositional device, and they also play an emblematic, even a symbolic role:
    In this world there are rhymes.
    Disjoin them – and it trembles.
  • catalina creelhas quoted6 years ago
    Above all, my translations are offered in what I conceive to be the Tsvetayevan spirit.
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