By denying me the seas,
the right to run and fly
By holding my foot firm
on this constraining earth
What have you achieved?
A splendid calculation.
But you could not seize
my muttering lips thereby.
by Osip Mandelstam
(1891-1938)
Image By English: Kida Kinjiro 日本語: 木田金次郎 (「木田金次郎画集」木田金次郎美術館、1999年) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
