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" How is your life with that other one?
Simpler, is it? A stroke of the oars
and a long coastline—
and the memory of me

is soon a drifting island
(not in the ocean—in the sky!)

— Marina Tsvetaeva, from “An Attempt at Jealousy,” transl. Ilya Kkaminsky and Jean Valentine, Poetry (March 2021) "

― Marina Tsvetaeva

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Marina Tsvetaeva quote : How is your life with that other one?<br />Simpler, is it? A stroke of the oars<br />and a long coastline—<br />and the memory of me<br /><br />is soon a drifting island<br />(not in the ocean—in the sky!)<br /><br />— Marina Tsvetaeva, from “An Attempt at Jealousy,” transl. Ilya Kkaminsky and Jean Valentine, <i>Poetry</i> (March 2021)
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