One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. Marina Tsvetaeva More Quotes by Marina Tsvetaeva More Quotes From Marina Tsvetaeva For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record. Marina Tsvetaeva spells tales records How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing. Marina Tsvetaeva printing writing quiet I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry. Marina Tsvetaeva veins black earth The one that burned the hottest is the first to die. Marina Tsvetaeva hottest burned firsts My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names. Marina Tsvetaeva poetry names diaries 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. Marina Tsvetaeva eye sleep children A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. Marina Tsvetaeva low us host deception
