No one has taken anything away by Marina Tsvetaeva

Описание: Marina Tsvetaeva yearns for her uncapturable love. The last line is haunting. What do you think of the poem? Comment your recommendations below!

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian poet. At the age of 18, Tsvetaeva published her first collection of poems, Evening Album. During her lifetime she wrote poems, verse plays, and prose pieces; she is considered one of the most renowned poets of 20th-century Russia.

🖼️: The Lovers II, 1928 by Rene Magritte
🎶: Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major, II. Adagio assai

Marina Tsvetaeva
No one has taken anything away...

No one has taken anything away —
there is even a sweetness for me in being apart.
I kiss you now across the many
hundreds of miles that separate us.

I know: our gifts are unequal, which is
why my voice is — quiet, for the first time.
What can my untutored verse
matter to you, a young Derzhavin?

For your terrible flight I give you blessing.
Fly, then, young eagle! You
have stared into the sun without blinking.
Can my young gaze be too heavy for you?

No one has ever stared more
tenderly or more fixedly after you ...
I kiss you — across hundreds of
separating years.