Marina Tsvetaeva
- To honor time, by Mary Jane White
Marina Tsvietáieva (español)
- Elogio del tiempo, Monica Zgustova, Olvido García Valdes
«It's unbecoming to be famous. / It isn't that that lifts aloft. / Maintaining archives tends to maim us. / Hoard MSS and you are lost. The aim of art is self-discharge / And not the clap-trap of success. / It's shameless to be looming large / For merits which are but a guess. Live on t...»
«On shore the trees stand looking on / While midday casts the clouds on bet / Into the meditative pond / For want of any other net. And like a net the sky sinks in / The pensively expectant waters / And into it the bathers swim, / Fathers, mothers, sons and daughters. Then half a dozen ...»
«A dish-like lake, serene and spacious, / Converging stormclouds overhead / And there, beyond, the alpine glaciers, / Lustrous and stark, sublime and dread. The lighting alters and the woods / Go through a constant change of colour, / Now burning, now beneath a hood / Of heart-oppressing...»
«To Ilya Ehrenburg Horses can swim but they don't venture far — / That is a fact, and here is the story: In times of peace, just after the war, / There was a ship by the name of Gloria. She was out at sea one fateful day, / Across the ocean ploughing her way. On the surging waves she toss...»