“Why is this century worse than those others?
Maybe, because, in sadness and alarm,
It only touched the blackest of the ulcers,
But couldn't heal it in its span of time.”

"Why is this century worse than those others?" (1919), translated by Yevgeny Bonver (2000)

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Russian modernist poet 1889–1966

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“Why is this century worse than those others?Maybe, because, in sadness and alarm,It only touched the blackest of the ulcers,But couldn't heal it in its span of time.”

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“Why is this century worse than those others?
Maybe, because, in sadness and alarm,
It only touched the blackest of the ulcers,
But couldn't heal it in its span of time.”