Marina Tsvetaeva. The poetess of absolute love

Woman’s Day

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The love that moves the Sun and the other stars

I turn to Dante to get as close as possible to a definition of “love”: heat, light, energy, and movement are the elements that characterize the feeling that keeps the universe and us human beings alive. On the other hand, in nomen omen, as the Roman said: the name Tsvetaeva contains the root cvet, which means light, heat, or flower. It happens that if you experience deep love, you see beyond the visible and understand the truth. John Keats, the romantic poet, also says it: to see beauty, we must cancel our “self” and become one with what we observe (this philosophy of his is called negative capability).

For some people, poets, and artists, it is a normal condition to be able to see the essence within the form. They become incorporeal in creation, to remove any barrier between themselves and the creative spirit, and thus infiltrate the interstices between the different worlds of perception.

Marina Tsvetaeva states that poets are incorporeal; they merge with the universe, they are flexible; they are nothing; they are everything: