Whispering: I rememember reading about Akhmatova that writing down poems
during the Stalin Terror was a highly dangerous thing to do, so the practice
of keeping them in the memory was in part conditioned by that.
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> The other thing, which Yevtushenko reminds us of, is that
> Russian is a language given to high rhyme while English is
> not, & those of us who work the open form hard don't make
> work that is easy to memorize.
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