Earthly Signs Quotes

“One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922

“Previously, everything that I love was called -- I, now it's -- You. But it's the same thing.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922

“And I’m starving – in the literal sense. Idiots think hunger – is the body. No, hunger – is the soul, the whole weight of it falls directly on the soul.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922

“What am I here for? To listen to my soul.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922

“The complete concurrence of souls requires the concurrence of the breath, for what is the breath, if not the rhythm of the soul? And thus, in order for people to understand one another, they must walk or lie side by side.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922

“In prose too much seems superfluous to me, in poetry (genuine) everything is necessary. Given my attraction to asceticism of the prosaic word, I could end up with a skeleton.

In poetry- there's a certain innate measure of flesh: less is impossible.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922