The Life, the Universe, and Everything
At this time it is the favourite expression of my son. “Just forget it. Everything will be fine.”
“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
— Charles Baudelaire
I could not agree more. Keeping a diary is a way of remembering. Therefore a diary is a torture device to a certain extent. I still keep one, but [...]
Sergei Yesenin (4 Oct. 1895 – 27 Dec. 1925)
To be a poet – is the same
As when by truth of life
You scar your own tender flesh,
And with the blood of feelings
Caress the souls of others.
To be a poet – to sing freedom,
As you know it best
The song of nightingale doesn’t hurt him -
His song is [...]
from “Monumental Propaganda” by Vladimir Voinovich
Shubkin took over the second part of the concert completely, once again with poems by Mayakovsky and other poets. She heard “Verses About a Soviet Passport”, clenched her fists and thought, I hate him! He recited “Anna Snegina” and she thought, I hate him! He read extracts from “Vasilii Tyorkin”, [...]
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