Birkus — Records & Real Life

With my respect for law and public borders. Written by Andrey Makarevich. Translated by Viktor Birkus. With my respect for law and public borders, I walk by street, not same as anyone. Despite the traffic rules and orders, I use the opposite pedestrian run. For that I see, just only one main reason, It simply looks a piece of cake, In moving stream, just napes and necks in vision, By this reverse, it helps to see a face.

The Know and Belief. Written by Andrey Makarevich. Translated by Viktor Birkus. Our life goes from edge to edge; At both sides, the doors are located, And “I know” on the last door is written “I believe” you can read at the entrance. Having only one head, you will never Open both doors and come at the same time. When you trust, you do it not knowing; When you know, it’s no longer believing. As expanding a personal mind Every day from the moment of birth, We explore the roads of knowledge And some doubt arrives with cognition. And the mystery will be there forever With no help from the scientist’s eggheads – “When we know”, we are immensely weak, “With a faith”, we are at our strongest.

Existing or to be . Written by Yuri Voronov. Translated by Viktor Birkus. Among at all that intertwined in our life, Quite often selfishness leads us. Existing or to be, that is the question. Look like someone or somebody to be? Be brave, or just pretend to brave? You sacrificed, loved, created, taught, Or only talk about it in public, Afraid confess you in the truth? What striving you: pretending or to be? How much cost life in luxury and rest, When try to sculpt her into falseness dress? Pretend is easy, difficult to be.

Without Me , 1916, Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin. Translated by Viktor Birkus. I think one day, I’ll pass away ; And in this selfsame empty room Will the same chair and table stay, And image, ancient and stern. A butterfly, likewise today, In a fluffy tender, rainbow silk Will come on a sunny summer day To fly and trembling on a sunbeam Fathomless bottom of the sky Looks in the window day and night; And the azure sea with calmed light Tempts into boundless happy flight.