Art in the Light of Conscience by Tsvetaeva Marina; Livingstone Angela; Livingstone Angela
Author:Tsvetaeva, Marina; Livingstone, Angela; Livingstone, Angela [Marina Tsvetaeva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1918914
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2015-04-20T16:00:00+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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