<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=582262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>We Should Be Stingier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We should be stingier<br>breathing out and breathing in-<br>then, perhaps, the epic<br>will lie down in neat quatrains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have to be more generous, <br>louder, like the outcry 'Follow me! '<br>stronger, coarser-<br>with the earth's coarse globe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I envy the relics of space, <br>compressed by the word in layers, <br>but brevity is the sister of ineptitude<br>when it springs from emptiness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not all conciseness is priceless.<br>Rhymed oil cakes are stiff and brittle, <br>and someone's square hay, <br>I wouldn't eat if I were a horse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I like hay by the armful, <br>with the dew still not dried out, <br>with red whortleberries, with mushroom caps, <br>clipped by a scythe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All sentimentality with form is sloppy, <br>hurl the epoch into rhythm, <br>tear it up the way an invalid in despair<br>tears up his striped sailor's shirt! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should we place in a woman's cap and dress<br>along with other old-fashioned rags, <br>the divine tatters<br>that we call life? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Handicraft taste is not art.<br>A great reader will grasp<br>both the charm of the absence of style<br>and the splendor of longeurs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>1986<br>Translated by Albert C. Todd</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Yevgeny+Yevtushenko">Yevgeny Yevtushenko</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=582262" data-title="We Should Be Stingier de Yevgeny Yevtushenko" data-description="We should be stingier breathing out and breathing in- then, perhaps, the epic will lie down in neat quatrains. We have to be more generous, louder, like the outcry 'Follow me! ' stronger, coarser- with the earth's coarse globe. I envy the relic..."></div> </div> </div>

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