“Go on with your simple life, the life of the black woods, the dark gardens, the sun.”— Bella Akhmadulina, tr Jean Valentine and Olga Carlisle, from “In The Emptied Rest Home,”
It is an agonizing cry to the void but could you please, please, leave me be?
—
Rebecca West, from a letter to S. K. Ratcliffe written c. February 1916
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