One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
Marina TsvetaevaWhat shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all this immensity in a measured world?
Marina TsvetaevaHowever much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.
Marina TsvetaevaWomen talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
Marina TsvetaevaThere are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Marina Tsvetaeva