Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone)
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Marina Tsvetaeva, from The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva; "Poem of the End,"
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— Marina Tsvetaeva, from The Selected Poems of M.T.; “Poem of the End.”
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Marina Tsvetaeva, Centres of Cataclysm: Celebrating Fifty Years of Modern Poetry in Translation; from ‘Poem of the End’, tr. Elaine Feinstein
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For love is flesh, it is a
flower flooded with blood.
Did you think it was just a
little chat across the table
a snatched hour and back home again
the way gentlemen and ladies
play at it? Either love is
---A shrine?
or else a scar.
A scar every servant and guest
can see (and I think silently:
love is a bow-string pulled
back to the point of breaking).
Love is a bond. That has snapped for
us our mouths and lives part
(I begged you not to put a
spell on me that holy hour
close on mountain heights of
passion memory is mist).
Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End
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Marina Tsvetaeva, Poem of the End
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Love is flesh, it is a flower flooded with blood.
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noo don’t cry about july ending and the time passing, just remember the july poem :)
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Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone) [ID'd]
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and the universe said i love you because you are love
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"he said this" "she said that" ok and??? The universe said I love you?? And the universe said you have played the game well?? And the universe said everything you need is within you??? And the universe said you are stronger than you know??? And the universe said you are the daylight?? And the universe said you are the night?? And the universe said the darkness you fight is within you??? And the universe said the light you seek is within you??? And the universe said you are not alone???? And the universe said you are not separate from every other thing?? And the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code???? And the universe said I love you because you are love?????????????
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"Ours are untidy souls. Both are covered in scars. Let's make a violent sweep of this."
Marina Tsvetaeva, Poem of the End
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i know not many people would want to read a 10,000 word article about the minecraft end poem and how the author, Julian Gough, was never fairly compensated for his work and has made it public domain.
But it's a very well-written and heartfelt read, and he makes it very clear that none of this is a cash-grab and despite the fact that he is essentially a starving artist in this capitalist society, he only mentions his financial struggles despite Minecraft's huge huge success at the bottom of this article and not in the tweets so as to not dilute his message.
Anyway, I just think it'd be cool if those who are able to could support him in some way whether it be subscribing to his substack or donating to his paypal (that's linked in the article, you can ctrl + F to find it easier), that's all.
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