Fyodor Tyutchev

Fyodor Tyutchev (1867)

Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (Russian: Фёдор Иванович Тютчев; December 5 (November 23 O.S.) 1803 - July 27 (July 15 O.S.) 1873) was a Russian poet and statesman.

Quotes

• How can a heart expression find?
  How should another know your mind?
  Will he discern what quickens you?
  A thought once uttered is untrue.
  • Silentium!

• After tumbling down the mountain, a stone lies in a valley.
  How did it fall away? Right now, no-one knows.
  Did it tear from the heights on its own?
  Or was it cast down by the will of another?
  Aeons have flowed by, yet no-one knows the reason why.
  • Problème

• I love May's first storms:
  chuckling, sporting spring
  grumbles in mock anger;
  young thunder claps.
  • A Spring Storm

• Умом — Россию не понять,
  Аршином общим не измерить:
  У ней особенная стать —
  В Россию можно только верить.
  • Russia cannot be understood with the mind alone,
    No ordinary yardstick can span her greatness:
    She stands alone, unique –
    In Russia, one can only believe.
    • Russia cannot be understood with the mind alone...

• Separation has this lofty meaning:
  if love lasts years, if but a day it takes,
  love's just a dream and we're a moment dreaming,
  and whether early, whether late the waking,
  the time must finally arrive when we awake.
  • Separation has this lofty meaning...

External links

• Tiutcheviana