Commonplace Book, 8/28/22 - Marina Tsvetaeva

“No one has the right to judge a poet who has not read every line that poet has written. Creation takes place gradually and successively. What I was in 1915 explains what I am in 1925. Chronology is the key to understanding.” 

--Marina Tsvetaeva, “The Poet on the Critic” in Art in the Light of Conscience (1992).