Marina Tsvetaeva's best-known lines and quotes
The top 3 according to 4 votes from people: To my poems, written so early / that I did not even know I was a poet. · Life is a railway station; I will leave soon, where to, I will not say. · In one incredible gallop / you lived your brief life… / and your curls, your sideburns / were covered by the snow.. (Updated Jan 26, 2024.)
"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.
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Top 13
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To my poems, written so early / that I did not even know I was a poet.
Poem "To my poems, written so early…", 1913.
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Life is a railway station; I will leave soon, where to, I will not say.
Answer to a questionnaire for a dictionary of 20th-century writers, 1926.
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3
In one incredible gallop / you lived your brief life… / and your curls, your sideburns / were covered by the snow.
Poem "To the Generals of 1812", 26 декабря 1913.
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I like that you are not sick with me, / I like that I am not sick with you.
Poem "I like that you are not sick with me…", 3 мая 1915.
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My poems, like precious wines, / will have their turn.
Poem "To my poems, written so early…", 1913.
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To love is to see a person as God intended them and their parents failed to make them.
Diary notes "On Love", 1918.
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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.
Diary notes "On Love", 1917.
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For myself, a room of my own and a writing desk. For Russia, whatever she wants.
"My wishes for 1926", 30 December 1925.
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Women talk about love and keep quiet about lovers; men, the other way round.
Draft notebook, 1932.
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10
What can we say about God? Nothing. What can we say to God? Everything.
Essay "The Poet and Time", 1932.
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11
Every book is a theft from your own life. The more you read, the less you can and want to live yourself.
Letter to Maximilian Voloshin, 18 April 1911.
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12
Pushkin's hand / I shake, I do not lick.
Poem "Poems to Pushkin", 1931.
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13
Love washes away the best rouge. / Taste it: / how salty tears are.
Poem "The ancient mists of love…", 19 августа 1917.
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