Quotes from Marina Tsvetaeva

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.