#PoetryTakeMeAway
Yes. Put like that, inspiration:
my free fantasy clings
always to those places where there's humiliation,
where there's filth and darkness and destitution.
Down there, down there, with more humility, lower still, -
from there you can better glimpse another world...
Have you ever seen the children in Paris
or the poor on the bridge in winter?
Open your eyes, open them as soon as possible
to the dense horror of life,
before a great storm sweeps away
everything that exists in your homeland, -
let the rightful indignation mature,
prepare your arms for work...
And if you cannot, let the annoyance and sadness
accumulate and ignite within you...
But of this deceitful living,
erase the greasy lipstick
and, like a timid mole, hide
underground from the light and become petrified,
hating all life with ferocity
and holding this world in contempt,
and, even if you do not see the future,
saying no to the things of the present!
Aleksandr Blok
