Art in the Light of Conscience by Marina Tsvetaeva

Author:Marina Tsvetaeva [Marina Tsvetaeva]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781780372310
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2015-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

The command of the multitudes to Mayakovsky: ‘Say us’; the command of the multitudes to Rilke: ‘Tell us’. Both commands were fulfilled. Nobody will call Mayakovsky a teacher of life, or Rilke an orator of the masses.

Rilke is as indispensable to our time as a priest on a battlefield: to pray, for the one side and for the other, for them and for us; for the illumination of the still living and the absolution of the fallen.

To be a contemporary is to create one’s time, not to reflect it. Or, to reflect it, only not like a mirror but like a shield. To be a contemporary is to create one’s time – that is, to do battle with nine-tenths of what’s in it, as you do battle with nine-tenths of a first draft.

We remove the scum from the cabbage-soup – shan’t we remove it from the boiling cauldron of time?

Gumilyov’s

I am polite to contemporary life

but there’s a barrier between us…

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