# Marina Tsvetaeva's best-known lines and quotes

"I like that you are not sick with me", "To my poems, written so early" and "To love is to see a person as God intended them": the poems and quotes by Marina Tsvetaeva everyone knows, with the poem, diary or letter they come from.

- 4 votes · 13 items
- Jan 26, 2024 · Pasha Makarov
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## Top 13

1. **To my poems, written so early / that I did not even know I was a poet.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "To my poems, written so early…", 1913.
2. **Life is a railway station; I will leave soon, where to, I will not say.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Answer to a questionnaire for a dictionary of 20th-century writers, 1926.
3. **In one incredible gallop / you lived your brief life… / and your curls, your sideburns / were covered by the snow.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Poem "To the Generals of 1812", 26 декабря 1913.
4. **I like that you are not sick with me, / I like that I am not sick with you.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "I like that you are not sick with me…", 3 мая 1915.
5. **My poems, like precious wines, / will have their turn.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "To my poems, written so early…", 1913.
6. **To love is to see a person as God intended them and their parents failed to make them.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Diary notes "On Love", 1918.
7. **Love: in winter from the cold, in summer from the heat, in spring from the first leaves, in autumn from the last: always from everything.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Diary notes "On Love", 1917.
8. **For myself, a room of my own and a writing desk. For Russia, whatever she wants.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — "My wishes for 1926", 30 December 1925.
9. **Women talk about love and keep quiet about lovers; men, the other way round.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Draft notebook, 1932.
10. **What can we say about God? Nothing. What can we say to God? Everything.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Essay "The Poet and Time", 1932.
11. **Every book is a theft from your own life. The more you read, the less you can and want to live yourself.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Letter to Maximilian Voloshin, 18 April 1911.
12. **Pushkin's hand / I shake, I do not lick.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "Poems to Pushkin", 1931.
13. **Love washes away the best rouge. / Taste it: / how salty tears are.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "The ancient mists of love…", 19 августа 1917.

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