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The people need poetry that will be their own secretTo keep them awake forever,And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.

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The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders,But I am no wolf by blood.
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One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continuity and tradition. Tradition cannot be contrived or learned. In its absence one has, at the best, not history but ‘progress’ — the mechanical movement of a clock hand, not the sacred succession of interlinked events.
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Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.
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Where to start?Everything cracks and shakes,The air trembles with similes,No one world's better than another;the earth moans with metaphors.
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My turn shall also come:I sense the spreading of a wing.
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