Literature

That night was to decide
if she and I
were to be lovers.
Under cover
of darkness
no one would s...
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
You came –
determined,
because I was large,
because I was roaring,
but on close inspection
...
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
Is this not that moon?
And Spring: is as the Spring of old
Is it not?
Only this body of mine
Is ...
- Ariwara no Narihira
I'll never step ashore and feel your beach
the way I felt it as a barefoot child,
or see you waver...
- Ugo Fuscolo
Since I lost you I am silence-haunted,
Sounds wave their little wings
A moment, then in weariness...
- D. H. Lawrence
The lamp once out
Cool stars enter
The window frame.

English version by Soiku Shigematsu...
- Natsume Sōseki
Well do I know myself, so
Your coldness
I did not think to blame, yet
My bitterness has
Soak...
- Saigyo Hoshi
It almost makes me cry to tell
What foolish Harriet befell.
Mamma and Nurse went out one day
And ...
- Heinrich Hoffmann
"What do you seek here among us?" the son of the desert asked me as we were watering our h...
- Vladimir Fran Mazuranic
O, Vrba, happy village, my old home -
My father's cottage stands there to this day.
The lure of le...
- France Preseren
A suicide in front of a mirror.
A frightened soul.
The wind moans in the black woods.
The night'...
- Srecko Kosovel
Reject me not if I should say to you
I do forget the sounding of your voice,
I do forget your ey...
- D. H. Lawrence
Tonight
the moon
as though marinated.

A family
on the fourth floor
playing the g...
- Aleksandrs Caks
I shall not wonder more, then,
But I shall know.

Leaves change, and birds, flowers,
And after y...
- Raymond Knister
An old man in the street
his simple tale to the old woman
it's nothing it sounds like a tenuous ...
- Paul van Ostaijen
With blue-paper arrows on my cheeks
And a yellow star stuck to my head,
I stay, as a monkey takes ...
- Martinus Nijhoff
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see th...
- Paul Klee
Like an ant who uneasily acquires knowledge

Under His knowledge's light many mainlands are bright...
- Akbar Aliev
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