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Vera Pavlova Quotes:

Vera Pavlova quotes

Ocupation: Poet

Life: b. 1963

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Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened,

Topics: Running, Home, Way, Sly

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Why is the word yes so brief? it should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in the middle of saying it.

source: - Vera Pavlova, “Why is the word YES so brief?”

Topics: Reflection, Middle, Should

The only thing I hope for is that, regardless of what the outward world is for different people, different nations, I hope their internal world is similar. And if I, hopefully, have managed to somehow describe my inner world in this book, all I count on is that it will have some resonance among the American readers, or, at the very least, the American readers will treat this book as a kind of a guidebook for my inner world, strange as it may appear.

Topics: Book, People, Different

Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been.

source: - Vera Pavlova (2012). “If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems”, p.82, Knopf

Topics: Bird, Saws, Sun

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