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ANNA AKHMATOVA ~ IN THE EVENING

IN THE EVENING  BY ANNA AKHMATOVA The garden rang with music Of inexpressible despair. A dish of oysters spread on ice Smelled like the ocean, fresh and sharp. He told me: “I’m a faithful friend!”- And lightly touched my dress. How different from embraces The touch of those two hands. That’s how one strokes a cat or bird Or looks at slender lady riders… Just laughter in his quiet eyes, Beneath his light gold lashes. And the despondent voices of the violins Sing out beyond the hanging smoke: “Give...

19 April 2013 | Poetry of Art | , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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ANTON CHEKHOV ~ ON LIFE

“There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live.” —Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters

01 March 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , | 0 Comments
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IVAN TURGENEV ~ GAMES OF THE MIND

“Moreover, probably owing to excessive self-consciousness, perhaps as the result of the generally unfortunate cast of my personality, there existed between my thoughts and feelings, and the expression of those feelings and thoughts, a sort of inexplicable, irrational, and utterly insuperable barrier; and whenever I made up my mind to overcome this obstacle by force, to break down this barrier, my gestures, the expression of my face, my whole being, took on an appearance of painful constraint. I not only seemed, I positively became unnatural and affected. I was...

27 February 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , | 0 Comments
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MIKHAIL BULGAKOV ~ THE EYES AND THE TRUTH

“The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You’re asked an unexpected question, you don’t even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.” ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and...

23 February 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , , , | 0 Comments
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ANTON CHEKHOV ~ HUMAN RELATIONS

“There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.” Anton Chekhov

22 February 2013 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , | 0 Comments
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THE TOLSTOY FAMILY ~ A LIFE IN PICTURES

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Count Lev Tolstoy and his Wife Countess Sophia Tolstoy At Home in Tolstoy’s Study, 1907

21 February 2013 | The Tolstoy Family ~ A Life in Pictures | , , , , | 0 Comments
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ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE ~ HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY ♥ The Kiss Konstantin Somov – 1914

14 February 2013 | Just a bit of everything and everyone... | , , , , | 0 Comments
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ANNA KARENINA ~ A STORY OF LOVE AND DESPAIR

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Photo: Greta Garbo, 1934

13 September 2012 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN ~ THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCE….

“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ; 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a writer, who, through his often-suppressed writings, helped to raise global awareness of the gulag, the Soviet Union’s forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970....

17 July 2012 | The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... | , , , , | 0 Comments
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DANIIL KHARMS ~ ON POETRY

“One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.” ― Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev(Даниил Иванович Юёв) was born in St. Petersburg, into the family of Ivan Yuvachev, a well known member of the revolutionary group, The People’s Will. By this time the elder Yuvachev had already been imprisoned for his involvement in subversive acts against the tsar Alexander III and had become a religious philosopher, acquaintance of Anton Chekhov during the latter’s trip to Sakhalin....

10 July 2012 | Poetry of Art | , , , , | 0 Comments
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