“Sweet to me was not the voice of man,
But the wind's voice was understood by me.”

"Willow" (1940)
Context: Sweet to me was not the voice of man,
But the wind's voice was understood by me.
The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul,
But I loved the silver willow best of all.

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Russian modernist poet 1889–1966

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