Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?
Marina TsvetaevaWings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.
Marina TsvetaevaMeanings are translatable. Words are untranslatableโฆ More briefly โ a word is translatable, its sound is not.
Marina TsvetaevaWomen talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
Marina TsvetaevaWho sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.โจ In the cradle a child is screaming.โจ An old man sits over his death, and anyoneโจ young enough talks to his love, breathes โจinto her lips, looks into her eyes.
Marina TsvetaevaWhat is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.
Marina Tsvetaeva