Marina Tsvetaeva
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
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?
—Marina Tsvetaeva, Pushkin and Pugachev, 1937
Posted on August 12, 2000 at 10:35 AM
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