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“A black dream weighs upon me like lead, / For my foreordained death is approaching, / and great wars and great fires lie ahead.”

Posted on October 18, 2021 by Kate Stover

The great Russian poet Alexander Block wrote these words in 1902, when he was 22 years old. It seemed as if he knew that in less than 20 years, he would die of heart failure brought on by malnutrition. He … Continue reading →

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