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Бродский
– 1958 Еврейское кладбище около Ленинграда. Кривой забор из гнилой фанеры. За кривым забором лежат рядом юристы, торговцы, музыканты, революционеры. Для себя пели. Для себя копили. Для других умирали. Но сначала платили налоги, уважали пристава, и в этом мире, безвыходно … Continue reading
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Mushroom by Emily Dickinson
The mushroom is the elf of plants, At evening it is not; At morning in a truffled hut It stops upon a spot As if it tarried always; And yet its whole career Is shorter than a snake’s delay, And … Continue reading
As I get more and more grown up, I wrestle with what it means. To quote one young but promising author, “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; … Continue reading
Charles Baudelaire – Une Charogne
Шарль Бодлер – ПАДАЛЬ Вы помните ли то, что видели мы летом? Мой ангел, помните ли вы Ту лошадь дохлую под ярким белым светом, Среди рыжеющей травы? Полуистлевшая, она, раскинув ноги, Подобно девке площадной, Бесстыдно, брюхом вверх лежала у дороги, … Continue reading
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes … Continue reading
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In time of ‘the breaking of nations’ (1916) – Thomas Hardy
I Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. II Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass: Yet this will go onward … Continue reading
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Walt Whitman – After the Sea-Ship
After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds; After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes, Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks, Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship: Waves of the ocean, … Continue reading
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Михаил Айзенберг
I Человек, пройдя нежилой массив, замечает, что лес красив, что по небу ходит осенний дым, остающийся золотым. Помелькав задумчивым грибником, он в сырую упал траву и с подмятым спорит воротником, обращается к рукаву. II Человек куда-то в лесу прилег, обратился … Continue reading
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Дмитрий Быков – Басня
Да, подлый муравей, пойду и попляшу И больше ни о чем тебя не попрошу. На стеклах ледяных играет мерзкий глянец. Зима сковала пруд, а вот и снег пошел. Смотри, как я пляшу, последний стрекозел, Смотри, уродина, на мой прощальный танец. … Continue reading
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Шахматы – Александр Тихонов
Всё перекрыто, некуда дыхнуть, Король застыл в предчувствии разгрома. Но где-то ж должен выход промелькнуть, Не где-то, а в резервуарах взлома. Не поленись, сосредоточься, вдруг Полезут вереницей варианты, Просчитывай, выпрыгивай за круг, За всё, что преподносят фолианты. Толкайся от того, … Continue reading
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QotD
If you care deeply about an issue and are engaged in group activity on its behalf that is fun and inspiring and heightens your sense of solidarity with others, you are most certainly not doing your cause any good. – … Continue reading
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‘The Temple of Nature’ (1802) by Erasmus Darwin
Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born, and nursed in Ocean’s pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire and larger … Continue reading
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Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the … Continue reading
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The Tyger
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the … Continue reading
A few from “The making of a poem”
You, Andrew Marvell – Archibald MacLeish And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth’s noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising of the night: To feel creep up the curving east The earthy … Continue reading
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Александр Блок Петроградское небо мутилось дождем, На войну уходил эшелон. Без конца — взвод за взводом и штык за штыком Наполнял за вагоном вагон. В этом поезде тысячью жизней цвели Боль разлуки, тревоги любви, Сила, юность, надежда… В закатной дали … Continue reading
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THE WAY OF THE WORLD – Ella Wheeler Wilcox Laugh, and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone ; For the brave old earth must borrow its mirth, It has troubles enough of its own. Sing, … Continue reading
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Sara Teasdale
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling … Continue reading
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Глеб Александрович Глинка
Бумажный Змей Когда душа вскипит, как чайник, Открыто, не исподтишка, Приладь к идее хвост мочальный И запускай под облака. Удача или неудача – Не важно; истина проста: В искусстве ничего не значит Сама идея, без хвоста.
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