Velimir Khlebnikov, a poem
To inaugurate my blog, a tiny important poem by Velimir Khlebnikov.
Мне мало надо!
Краюшку хлеба
И капля молока.
Да это небо,
Да эти облака!
—1912, 1922
I don’t need much!
A crust of bread,
A cup of milk,
The sky above,
And these clouds!
—Trans. Paul Schmidt, Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov: Selected Poems, vol. 3 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998).
Oct 14, 14:14 by Alexander Dickow
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