«How many dear companions who enlivened for us / The world's rough road are gone, each fellow traveler / Much missed; yet say not sadly: they have left us! / But rather say, with gratitude: they were.»
«1 I don’t believe in omens or fear / Forebodings. I flee from neither slander / Nor from poison. Death does not exist. / Everyone’s immortal. Everything is too. / No point in fearing death at seventeen, / Or seventy. There’s only here and now, and light; / Neither death, nor darkn...»
«He was sitting by the river, among reeds / that peasants had been scything for their thatch. / And it was quiet there, and in his soul / it was quieter and stiller still. / He kicked off his boots and put / his feet into the water, and the water / began talking to him, not knowing / he...»
«If all who have begged help / From me in this world, / All the holy innocents, / Broken wives, and cripples, / The imprisoned, the suicidal — / If they had sent me one kopeck / I should have become ‘richer / Than all Egypt’... / But they did not send me kopecks, / Instead the...»