Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaevawas a Russian and Soviet 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...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 October 1892
CountryRussian Federation
Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.
I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl ...
Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.
I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.