Marina Tsvetaeva Quotes

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

~ Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?

~ Marina Tsvetaeva

I opened my veins. Unstoppablylife 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 nourishthe rushes unstoppablywithout cure, gushespoetry ...

~ Marina Tsvetaeva

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

~ Marina Tsvetaeva

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

~ Marina Tsvetaeva

I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how unequivocal, how exactly what it says. Just – sleep. And nothing more. No, another thing: and know right into the deepest sleep that it is you. And more: how your heart sounds. And – kiss your heart.

~ Marina Tsvetaeva

Somewhere in the night ahuman being is drowning.

~ Marina Tsvetaeva

The eclipses ofpoets are not foretold in the calender.

~ Marina Tsvetaeva

For the way of the comets is the poet's way.

~ Marina Tsvetaeva

I am a moonbeam free to go whenever I choose.

~ Marina Tsvetaeva