The Life, the Universe, and Everything
From Sergei Yesenin’s “The Black Man”
Happiness — he said –
Is a quickness of hand and mind.
Slow fools are always
Known for being unhappy.
Heartaches, we know,
Derive
From broken, lying gestures.
Why poems, all of a sudden?
Of all the poets, why Yesenin?
“What’s the life of a scandalous poet to me?”
What is it to you? My audience? I know that I [...]
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Sergei Esenin may be widely known because of his dramatic demise. After he married Isadora Duncan, they traveled Europe and America, where he became very ill. There are different explanations of what happened.
The Soviet explanation is that
“…he had not been indifferent to the world’s biggest arena of the conflicts engendered by the system of private [...]
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