Marina Tsvetaeva Quotes

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. … Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

Think about me lightly,
think of me, and forget.

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

Don’t you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours – and nobody’s. Just like a seraph you smile to people And arrows moan in the slow arteries. After a sleepless night the arms get weaker And deeply equal to you are the friend and foe. Smells like Florence in the frost, and in each Sudden sound is the whole rainbow. Tenderly light the lips, and the shadow’s golden Near the sunken eyes. Here the night has sparked This brilliant likeness – and from the dark night Only just one thing – the eyes – are growing dark.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.? In the cradle a child is screaming.? An old man sits over his death, and anyone? young enough talks to his love, breathes ?into her lips, looks into her eyes.

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You’ve been with me on every road I’ve taken. My scar and my protection.

And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.