Born on this day - Marina Tsvetaeva (8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892 – 31 August 1941) PSYCHE I’m no impostor – I’m home. I’m no servant – I brought no leaven. I’m – your passion, your Sunday rest, Your seventh day, your seventh heaven. They hung millstones round my neck, On earth, they flung me a penny. – Lover! – Surely you know? I am your swallow – Psyche! ― Marina Tsvetaeva, April 1918 Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. Tsvetaevas poetry was admired by poets such as Valery Bryusov, Maximilian Voloshin, Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Anna Akhmatova. Later, that recognition was also expressed by the poet Joseph Brodsky, pre-eminent among Tsvetaevas champions. Tsvetaeva was primarily a lyrical poet, and her lyrical voice remains clearly audible in her narrative poetry. Brodsky said of her work: Represented on a graph, Tsvetaevas work would exhibit a curve - or rather, a straight line - rising at almost a right angle because of her constant effort to raise the pitch a note higher, an idea higher (or, more precisely, an octave and a faith higher.) She always carried everything she has to say to its conceivable and expressible end. In both her poetry and her prose, nothing remains hanging or leaves a feeling of ambivalence. Tsvetaeva is the unique case in which the paramount spiritual experience of an epoch (for us, the sense of ambivalence, of contradictoriness in the nature of human existence) served not as the object of expression but as its means, by which it was transformed into the material of art. Critic Annie Fitch describes the engaging, heart-felt nature of the work. Tsvetaeva is such a warm poet, so unbridled in her passion, so completely vulnerable in her love poetry, whether to her female lover Sofie Parnak, to Boris Pasternak. [...] Tsvetaeva throws her poetic brilliance on the altar of her heart’s experience with the faith of a true romantic, a priestess of lived emotion. And she stayed true to that faith to the tragic end of her life. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) The Wedding of Psyche - Edward Burne-Jones, 1895 Wikiart - This artwork is in the public domain
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