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“Consider this: Could it be true that, in all Russian literature, there isn’t a single clear and joyous depiction of the sun?”
― Odessa Stories
― Odessa Stories
“All night I flee from someone. I lead the chase, I lead the fugue. I sing a song of mourning. Black birds over black shrouds. My brain cries.”
― The Galloping Hour: French Poems
― The Galloping Hour: French Poems
“Here the destruction is subtle, and there the body is torn. Here the breaking is perceived, and there the dead unaware carry their putrid remains. All trade in filth, carry their filth one to another, all walk the streets as though the ground did not recoil, all stretch their necks to bite the air, as though the breath had not withdrawn. The seed bursts without a blessing, and the harvest is gathered as if it were food.”
― Book of Mercy
― Book of Mercy
“You were supposed to say, I
am wholly yours, nothing
but these words.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
am wholly yours, nothing
but these words.”
― Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
“And the idea of him ever since. . . . Our feelings about people change as we grow up: but if we are left with an idea instead of a person, perhaps that never changes. After every mistake Charles made, I expect you thought: 'Vesey wouldn't have done that.' But an idea can't ever make mistakes. He led a perfect life in your brain. When he turned up again, the climate was right for him, tempered by your imagination. But his climate isn't right for you.”
― A Game of Hide and Seek
― A Game of Hide and Seek
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