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" I don’t believe in omens or fear
Forebodings. I flee from neither slander
Nor from poison. Death does not exist.
Everyone’s immortal. Everything is too.
No point in fearing death at seventeen,
Or seventy. There’s only here and now, and light;
Neither death, nor darkness, exists.
We’re all already on the seashore;
I’m one of those who’ll be hauling in the nets
When a shoal of immortality swims by.

from “Life, Life "

Arseny Tarkovsky , Life, Life: Selected Poems


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Arseny Tarkovsky quote : I don’t believe in omens or fear<br />Forebodings. I flee from neither slander<br />Nor from poison. Death does not exist.<br />Everyone’s immortal. Everything is too.<br />No point in fearing death at seventeen,<br />Or seventy. There’s only here and now, and light;<br />Neither death, nor darkness, exists.<br />We’re all already on the seashore;<br />I’m one of those who’ll be hauling in the nets<br />When a shoal of immortality swims by.<br /><br />from “Life, Life