The scans in this post are of the book that was published by Progress Publishing House in 1982. That’s how long – as long as I live – I’ve been learning the English language. I...
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, / And the epitaph drear: `A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East’. Rudyard Kipling, a British poet and wr...
In October 2008 I wrote a post, featuring a poem Scent of Irises by D. H. Lawrence and a painting by Vincent van Gogh, called Irises. Who would have thought (not me!) that 2.5 years later not one but ...
Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life. Anna Akhmatova, a Russian poet....
Sheffield 7 – Andrew Motion “What If…?”, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Via Flickr: What If..? by Andrew Motion O travellers from somewhere else to here Rising fro...
Recently a Russian query has led to my blog: “и повторится все как встарь аптека улица”. So here is my English translation of a well-known poem by Alexander Blok, Night, a Streetlight, a S...
Many years ago I read the wonderful Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear. My interests lay at that point primarily in the field of Literature, so I never looked at those five-liners from the point of ethno...
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. Jacques Prévert, a French poet and writer....
I wanted to share something about what I am presently doing in terms of literary work.Whereas previously I had often lived in the space created by one language, my space is now always bilingual, where...
One will surely understand what I consider to be the function of poetry. It is to nourish the spirit of man by giving him the cosmos to suckle. Francis Ponge, a French essayist and poet....