Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
Who is Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Марина Ивановна Цветаева; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892 – 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it. In an attempt to save her daughter Irina from starvation, she placed her in a state orphanage in 1919, where she died of hunger. Tsvetaeva left Russia in 1922 and lived with her family in increasing poverty in Paris, Berlin and Prague before returning to Moscow in 1939. Her husband Sergei Efron and their daughter Ariadna (Alya) were arrested on espionage charges in 1941; her husband was executed. Tsvetaeva committed suicide in 1941. As a lyric...
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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva Poems
- Girlfriend
"I will not part! -- There is no end!" She clings and clings...
And in the breast -- the rise
Of threatening waters,
Of notes...Steadfast: like an immutable
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- Dialogue Between Hamlet And His Conscience
- She's- She's in the riverbed, in algae
And weeds...She went to them
To sleep, - but there's no sleep there, either!
- But she's the one I loved
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- Whence Cometh Such Tender Rapture?
Whence cometh such tender rapture?
Those curls--they are not the first ones
I've smoothened, and I've already
Known lips--that were darker than yours.
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- No Longer Now
No longer now the same god-given bounties
Where now no longer the same waters glide.
Then fly, and hasten, doves of Aphrodite,
Through the great gates that sunset has swung wide.
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- Books In Red Binding
From heaven of a childhood life
A farewell to me you're sending,
The ever-loyal dear friends
Within a red worn down binding.
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- Adenarabie: “in a world where everything is mold and vines,
i know: only
you are equal in essence
to me.”
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- Pokshyvanov: we joke and joke, but the longing grows and grows...
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- Raaga_suresh: and finally, a poem of marina ivanovna tsvetaeva to end this thread.
- Mamboward: inspiring women:
marina ivanovna tsvetaeva (october 8, 1892 –august 31, 1941) russian & soviet poet. her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century russian literature.
she lived through & wrote of the russian revolution of 1917 and the famine.
- Krasnodarfuture: "... and if the heart, breaking,
removes stitches without a doctor, -
know that there is a head from the heart,
and there is an ax - from the head ..."
-marina ivanovna tsvetaeva-
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