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All I want to do is
escape the madness here.
To rise into the light
where I can disappear.
Where you can be like light –
and happiness is mine! –
and learn from every star
what it means to shine.
All I want to say is,
the whispering you hear –
that’s the sound of light
I whisper in your ear.
The thing that makes us light
the thing that makes us shine
is that I whisper words
and that this voice is mine.
The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems.
(New York Review Books Classics)
Translated by Paul Schmidt.
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