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“Who hasn’t built a house …” by
Marina Tsvetaeva
🇷🇺
(
8 Oct 1892
–
31 Aug 1941
)
Translated from the Russian by Dmitri Smirnov-Sadovsky
Who hasn’t built a house—
Is unworthy of earth.
Who hasn’t built a house—
Will not become earth:
Thatch—ashes…
—I haven’t built a house.