Lina Kostenko Quotes

Lina Vasylivna Kostenko (Ukrainian: Ліна Василівна Костенко; born 19 March 1930) is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, publisher, and former Soviet dissident. A founder and leading representative of the Sixtiers poetry movement, Kostenko has been described as one of Ukraine's foremost poets and credited with reviving Ukrainian-language lyric poetry.
Kostenko has been granted numerous honours, including an honorary professorship at Kyiv Mohyla Academy, honorary doctorates of Lviv and Chernivtsi Universities, and the Shevchenko National Prize, Legion of Honour.

Occupation:

writer, poet

Born:

03/19/30 (age 95 years)

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And people always died for their faith.
We did not find this eternal sport.
The main thing here is to look into the eyes of the beast
and simply to remain human.

It is in me, my holy rebellion.
I look into your bloody fog.
To his executioners and in his last moment
I will say, as the first of the Christians:

— You can't burn me.
The fire is cold, it has already gone out.
And your lions lick my feet.
And your servants laughed at you.

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