Statements, quotes and aphorisms of Paustovsky
“Imagination, born of life, in turn sometimes gains power over life.”“A genius is so internally rich that any topic, any thought, incident or object evokes in him an inexhaustible stream of associations.”
“I deeply love nature, the power of the human spirit and the true human dream. And she is never loud... Never! The more you love her, the deeper you hide her in your heart, the more you protect her.”
“Inspiration is like first love, when the heart beats loudly in anticipation of amazing meetings, unimaginably beautiful eyes, smiles and omissions.”
“Inspiration is a strict working state of a person.”
“Every person, at least several times in his life, has experienced a state of inspiration - elation, freshness, a vivid perception of reality, fullness of thought and awareness of his creative power.”
“We must be the owners of the art of all times and all countries.”
“Every minute, every casual word and glance, every deep or humorous thought, every imperceptible movement of the human heart, just like the flying fluff of a poplar or the fire of a star in a night puddle - all these are grains of gold dust.”
“We, writers, have been extracting them for decades, these millions of grains of sand, collecting them unnoticed by ourselves, turning them into an alloy and then forging from this alloy our “golden rose” - a story, novel or poem.”
“He is not a writer who has not added at least a little vigilance to a person’s vision.”
“...Only writers with the gift of improvisation can write without a preliminary plan.”
“The clearer the air, the brighter the sunlight. The more transparent the prose, the more perfect its beauty and the more powerfully it resonates in the human heart.”
“The weariness and colorlessness of prose are often the result of a writer’s cold blood, a formidable sign of his death. But sometimes it’s just inability, indicating a lack of culture.”
“If a writer sees well what he is writing about, then the simplest and sometimes even erased words acquire newness, act on the reader with striking force and evoke in him those thoughts, feelings and states that the writer wants to convey to him.”
“The creative process in its very course acquires new qualities, becomes more complex and richer.”
“... From constant contact with reality, the plan blossoms and is filled with the juices of the earth.”
“You can’t lose your sense of calling. It cannot be replaced by either sober calculation or literary experience.”
“There is nothing happier in the world than harmony between close people, and nothing more terrible than dying love, undeserved by anyone who loves, inexplicable...”
“...Knowledge of all related fields of art - poetry, painting, architecture, sculpture and music - unusually enriches the inner world of a prose writer and gives special expressiveness to his prose. The latter is filled with the light and colors of painting, the capacity and freshness of words characteristic of poetry, the proportionality of architecture, the convexity and clarity of the lines of sculpture and the rhythm and melody of music. All these are additional riches of prose, like its additional colors.”
“Knowledge is organically connected with human imagination. This seemingly paradoxical law can be expressed as follows: the power of imagination increases as knowledge grows.”
“There are no sounds, colors, images of thoughts - complex or simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.”
“We still stubbornly neglect the beauty of nature and do not know the full power of its cultural and moral impact on humans...”
“... Our creativity is intended to ensure that the beauty of the earth, the call to fight for happiness, joy and freedom, the breadth of the human heart and the strength of the mind prevail over the darkness and sparkle like the never-setting sun.”
“The true calling of a writer has absolutely no qualities that cheap skeptics attribute to it - neither false pathos, nor the writer’s pompous awareness of his exclusive role.”
“The voice of conscience and faith in the future do not allow a true writer to live on earth like a barren flower, and not convey to people with complete generosity the entire huge variety of thoughts and feelings that fill him.”
“The writer’s job is to convey or, as they say, convey his associations to the reader and evoke similar associations in him.”
“You need to give freedom to your inner world, open all the floodgates for it and suddenly see with amazement that in your consciousness there are much more thoughts, feelings and poetic power than you imagined.”
“A poetic perception of life, of everything around us, is the greatest gift we have inherited from childhood. If a person does not lose this gift over many sober years, then he is a poet or writer.”
“Nature will act on us with all its strength only when we bring our human beginning into the feeling of it, when our state of mind, our love, our joy or sadness comes into full harmony with nature and it will no longer be possible to separate the freshness of the morning from the light beloved eyes and the measured noise of the forest from thinking about the life lived.”
“... The rhythm of prose is never achieved artificially. The rhythm of prose depends on talent, on a sense of language, on a good “writer’s ear.” This good ear is to some extent in contact with musical hearing.”
“Our greatest regret is the excessive and unjustified speed of time... Before you know it, your youth is fading and your eyes are dimming. And yet you have not yet seen even a hundredth part of the charm that life has scattered around.”
“A writer who loves the perfection of classical architectural forms will not allow ponderous and clumsy composition in his prose. He will strive for proportionality of parts and rigor of the verbal drawing. He will avoid an abundance of decorations that dilute the prose - the so-called ornamental style.
“Writing is not a craft or an occupation. Writing is a calling."
“Poetry has one amazing property. She returns the word to its original, virgin freshness. The most erased, completely “spoken” words by us, which have completely lost their figurative qualities for us, living only as a verbal shell, begin to sparkle, ring, and smell fragrant in poetry!”
“One of the foundations of writing is a good memory.”
“The dazzling sun of imagination lights up only from touching the earth. It cannot burn in emptiness. It goes out in her.”
“The feeling of life as continuous newness is the fertile soil on which art blossoms and matures.”
“Writers cannot for a moment give in to adversity or retreat from obstacles. Whatever happens, they must continuously do their job, bequeathed to them by their predecessors and entrusted to them by their contemporaries.”
“The heart, imagination and mind are the environment where what we call culture is born.”
“The artist’s job is to resist suffering with all his might, with all his talent.”
“Take care of love like a precious thing. If you treat love badly once, the next one will definitely be flawed.”
“The wealth of associations speaks of the richness of the writer’s inner world.”
“Inspiration enters us like a shining summer morning, just cast off the mists of a quiet night, splashed with dew, with thickets of wet leaves. It gently breathes its healing coolness into our faces.”
“The job of an artist is to create joy.”
“A plan, just like lightning, arises in a person’s consciousness, saturated with thoughts, feelings and memory notes. All this accumulates gradually, slowly, until it reaches the level of tension that requires an inevitable discharge. Then this entire compressed and somewhat chaotic world gives birth to lightning - a plan.”
“Waiting for happy days is sometimes much better than these very days.”
“A person must be smart, simple, fair, brave and kind. Only then does he have the right to bear this high title - Man.”
“Ignorance makes a person indifferent to the world, and indifference grows slowly but irreversibly, like a cancer.”
“One who is deprived of the feeling of sadness is as pitiful as a person who does not know what joy is, or who has lost the sense of the funny. The loss of at least one of these properties indicates irreparable spiritual limitation.”
“Love has thousands of aspects, and each of them has its own light, its own sadness, its own happiness and its own fragrance.”
“Let’s not talk about love, because we still don’t know what it is.”
“In every field of human knowledge there is an abyss of poetry.”
“If you take away a person’s ability to dream, then one of the most powerful motivations that gives rise to culture, art, science and the desire to fight for a wonderful future will disappear.”
“And the executioners believe that they are fighting for the vital interests of the people.”
“From a dream book. If a poet dreamed that he ran out of money, this is for poetry.”
"Cancer's future is behind us."
“If people have a physique, then I have a body subtraction.”
“Savrasov painted the painting “The Rooks Have Arrived” quickly - he was afraid that the rooks would fly away.”
“With the cult of personality, everything has now been explained to us, and we all now understand and know. There is one thing we don’t know: was everything explained to us? We’ll find out then when they explain something else to us.”
“Chekhov’s favorite theme: there was a forest, an excellent, healthy one, but a forester was invited to take care of it, and the forest immediately withered away and died.”
“I always write only by hand. The typewriter is a witness, and the work of a writer is an intimate matter. It requires complete solitude."
“Chekhov was at the very edge of religion. And he didn't go any further. Love for one's neighbor got in the way. Leo Tolstoy crossed the line. Self-love helped. Chekhov was afraid of death, but rarely spoke about it. It's hard to talk. Leo Tolstoy was afraid of death and constantly talked about it. It's hard to remain silent."
“I believe that the basis of literature is imagination and memory, and therefore I am against notebooks. When you take a phrase from a notebook and insert it into a text that was written at a different time, in a different mood, it immediately withers and dies. I personally recognize notebooks only as a genre.”
“Some writers don’t even have cursive writing, but greyhound writing, frolic writing, dashing writing. One such reckless driver once told Olesha: “Yuri Karlovich, you have written so little in your whole life that I can read it all in one night.” Olesha replied: “And I can write in one night everything that you have composed in your entire life.”
“Bunin wrote about himself, a prose writer: “Poems taught me brevity.” Today’s poems are more likely to teach a prose writer how long it is.”
“To think that your writings can change life for the better is, of course, naive, but writing without faith in this is also impossible.”
“Surprisingly, a person is more proud of what he is endowed with by nature than of his own merits. And if he is proud of his merits, then behind this one hears more “This is what I am!” than “This is what I have become!”
“A genius is always afraid that he is partly a graphomaniac; a graphomaniac never doubts that he is a genius.”
“The loss of conscience is usually accompanied by hymns in its honor. The scumbags' favorite word is "morality."
“He is, of course, great. But infinitesimal."
“Perseverance is also a property of talent. Some writers should be photographed not from their faces, but from their backsides.”
“In my opinion, the main thing is not to forget the banal truth that you are the same as others, and therefore try not to cause people something that would make you feel bad.”
“A famous writer is one who also publishes weak things. Famous is the one who is praised for them.”
“Turgenev lacked the health of Leo Tolstoy and the illness of Dostoevsky.”
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
(1892–1968)
Russian writer. Author of the stories “Kara-Bugaz”, “Lake Front”, “Colchis”, “Black Sea”, “Constellation of the Hounds Dogs”, “Northern Tale”, “Meshchera Side”, “Tale of Forests”; novels “Shining Clouds”, “Romantics”, “Smoke of the Fatherland”; autobiographical epic “The Tale of Life”, short stories, fairy tales, a book of historical and biographical essays “Golden Rose. Notes on writing", memoirs, plays, etc.
Without books, we can now neither live, nor fight, nor suffer, nor rejoice and win, nor confidently move towards that reasonable and beautiful future in which we unshakably believe.
Without a feeling of your country - special, very dear and sweet in every detail - there is no real human character. This feeling is selfless and fills us with great interest in everything.
Take care of love like a precious thing. If you treat love poorly once, the next one will definitely be flawed.
The wealth of associations speaks of the richness of the writer’s inner world.
There is an abyss of poetry in any area of human knowledge.
In modesty - the moral strength and purity of the people, in bragging - their insignificance and lack of intelligence.
There is no excuse for people that a drunken person becomes worse than the dirtiest cattle.
Inspiration enters us like a radiant summer morning, just cast off from the mists of a quiet night, splashed with dew, with thickets of damp leaves. It gently breathes its healing coolness into our faces.
Inspiration is like first love, when the heart beats loudly in anticipation of amazing meetings, unimaginably beautiful eyes, smiles and omissions.
Imagination, born of life, in turn sometimes gains power over life.
A genius is so internally rich that any topic, any thought, incident or object evokes in him an inexhaustible stream of associations.
I deeply love nature, the power of the human spirit and the real human dream! And she is never loud... Never! The more you love her, the deeper you hide her in your heart, the more you protect her.
The artist’s job is to resist suffering with all his might, with all his talent.
For everything that exists in nature - water, air, sky, clouds, sun, rain, forests, swamps, rivers and lakes, meadows and fields, flowers and herbs - there are a great many good words and names in the Russian language.
If a writer, while working, does not see behind the words what he is writing about, then the reader will not see anything behind them.
If the ability to dream is taken away from a person, then one of the most powerful motivations that gives rise to culture, art, science and the desire to fight for a wonderful future will disappear.
Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct relationship, and give a phrase ease and proper sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notations. They hold the text firmly and prevent it from falling apart.
Knowledge is organically connected with human imagination. This seemingly paradoxical law can be expressed as follows: the power of imagination increases as knowledge grows.
True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language.
True happiness is primarily the lot of those who know, and not the ignorant. A person who knows, for example, the life of plants and the laws of the plant world is much happier than one who cannot even distinguish alder from aspen or clover from plantain.
Every minute, every casual word and glance, every deep or humorous thought, every imperceptible movement of the human heart, just like the flying fluff of a poplar or the fire of a star in a night puddle - all these are grains of golden dust.
Each thing must be written as if it were the last in your life, so you must put everything into it, leaving nothing in reserve.
The forest is a beautiful expression of the power of nature and the clearest example of its perfection.
Forests are not only the decoration of the earth, its magnificent and amazing outfit. And this is not only a source of raw materials. Forests are our most faithful assistant in the struggle for the harvest. They store moisture, keep our great rivers full, soften the climate, stop hot winds and sands... They teach people to understand beauty.
We, writers, have been extracting them for decades, these millions of grains of sand, collecting them unnoticed by ourselves, turning them into an alloy and then forging from this alloy our “golden rose” - a story, novel or poem.
We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language.
How much more effective and majestic the theme of the starry sky, beloved by poets, would become if they knew astronomy well!
Ignorance makes a person indifferent to the world, and indifference grows slowly but irreversibly, like a cancerous tumor.
There is nothing happier in the world than harmony between close people, and nothing more terrible than dying love - undeserved by none of the lovers, inexplicable.
There is no land dearer to our hearts than Russia, than its fresh forests and copses, fields and water meadows, quiet rivers, ringing springs and bright dawns over dewy thickets...
No! A person cannot live without a homeland, just as a person cannot live without a heart.
You need to give freedom to your inner world, open all the floodgates for it and suddenly see with amazement that your mind contains much more thoughts, feelings and poetic power than you imagined.
Waiting for happy days is sometimes much better than these very days.
The dazzling sun of imagination lights up only from touching the earth. It cannot burn in emptiness. It goes out in her.
The feeling of life as continuous novelty is the fertile soil on which art blossoms and matures.
Writing is not a craft or an occupation. Writing is a calling. Delving into some words, into their very sound, we find their original meaning. The word “calling” was born from the word call... ...First of all, the call of one’s own heart.
By the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value.
The impulse to create can easily fade away, just as it arose, if left without food.
Almost every writer has his own inspirer, his own kind genius, usually also a writer.
A poetic perception of life and everything around us is the greatest gift we have inherited from childhood. If a person does not lose this gift over many sober years, then he is a poet or writer.
A beautiful landscape is a matter of national importance. It must be protected by law. Because it is fruitful, ennobles a person, causes an upsurge of mental strength in him, calms him down and creates that life-affirming state, without which a full-fledged person of our time is unthinkable.
Nature loves, requires balance and silence, she is essentially as affectionate as any good person; Let us be with her in peace, so that we can fully hear her sincere voice and know the joy of her silence.
Nature has unheard of generosity. She is not sorry for her strength.
Nature is blind and lacks the ability to judge. She hits indiscriminately.
Nature teaches us to understand beauty. Love for one's native country is impossible without love for its nature.
Homeland is everything...
The native land is the most magnificent thing given for life. We must cultivate it, protect it and protect it with all the strength of our being.
The Russian language is fully revealed in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone” and feel the hidden charm of our land.
You can do wonders with the Russian language. There is nothing in life and in our consciousness that cannot be conveyed in Russian. The sound of music, the sparkle of colors, the play of light, the noise and shadow of gardens, the vagueness of sleep, the rumble of a thunderstorm, the whisper of children and the rustle of sea gravel, there are no sounds, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language .
Our greatest regret is the excessive and unjustified speed of time... Before you know it, your youth is fading and your eyes are dimming. And yet you have not yet seen even a hundredth part of the charm that life has scattered around.
The heart, imagination and mind are the environment where what we call culture is born.
The power of imagination increases as knowledge increases.
The work of a writer, hidden from everyone before the publication of a book, turns after its publication into a universal matter.
There is a kind of law of the influence of the writer's word on the reader.
Happiness is given only to those who know. The more a person knows, the more sharply, the more powerfully he sees the poetry of the earth where a person with meager knowledge will never find it.
Only people who do not remember their spiritual kinship, people who are stupidly indifferent to the culture of their country, to its past, present and future, can... mercilessly destroy the high cultural value that nature, landscape and its beauty carry.
The people who created such a “Russian” language are truly a great and happy people.
He is not a writer who has not added at least a little vigilance to a person’s vision.
Anyone who is deprived of the feeling of sadness is just as pitiful as a person who does not know what joy is, or who has lost the sense of the funny. The loss of at least one of these properties indicates irreparable spiritual limitation.
Love has thousands of aspects, and each of them has its own light, its own sadness, its own happiness and its own fragrance.
A person must be smart, simple, fair, brave and kind. Only then does he have the right to bear this high title - Man.
The more you know, the more interesting life is...
Foreign skies and foreign countries delight us only for a very short time; despite all its beauty. In the end, the time will come when a lonely daisy on the edge of the road to our father’s house will seem sweeter to us than the starry sky over the Great Ocean, and the cry of a neighbor’s rooster will sound like the voice of our homeland, calling us back to our fields and forests covered with fog.
Masterpieces exist not only in art, but also in nature.
These lines <about the introduction to the poem “The Bronze Horseman”> are not only the pinnacle of poetry. They contain not only precision, spiritual clarity and silence. They still have all the magic of Russian speech. If it were possible to imagine that Russian poetry would disappear, that the Russian language itself would disappear, and only these few lines would remain from it, then even then the richness and melodious power of our language would be clear to everyone. Because these poems by Pushkin contain, as if in a magic crystal, all the extraordinary qualities of our speech.
I write, turning into books, I give myself to everyone.
I realized that the best thing in nature is restraint, softness, and not the loud shine of the skies, varnished and hot.
I am sure that in order to fully master the Russian language, in order not to lose the feeling of this language, you need not only constant communication with ordinary Russian people, but communication with pastures and forests, waters, old willows, with the whistling of birds and with every flower, that nods its head from under a hazel bush.
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Monday, July 06, 2015 19:18 + to quote book Quotes from Paustovsky Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky Konstantin Georgievich (1892 - 1968) - Russian, Soviet writer.
Take care of love like a precious thing Quote from the book by Paustovsky K.G. “The Tale of Life” (Restless Youth) (1954). The old man says to the main character (the author) - “- Let me give you old man’s advice. Take care of love like a precious thing. If you treat love badly once, the next one will definitely be flawed.” Be kind to your imagination! Don’t avoid it. Expression from the book of Paustovsky K.G. “The Story of a Life” “Throw to the South” (1959-1960) - “But still be merciful to the imagination! Don't avoid it. Don’t pursue, don’t pull back, and above all, don’t be ashamed of him like a poor relative. This is the beggar who hides the countless treasures of Golconda." In literature, as always, there is a war between the Scarlet and Gray Roses! The expression belongs to the writer K. G. Paustovsky. His son, Vadim Paustovsky writes in the preface to the book “The Tale of Life” “A Time of Great Expectations” (1958) - “It was his father who owned the aphorism that was famous in his time about the situation in our literature. Comparing writers with knights who in medieval England fought wars between adherents of the Orders of the Scarlet and White Roses, he said: “In literature, as always, there is a war between the Scarlet and Gray Roses!” 1455-1485 in the struggle for power between supporters of two branches of the English Plantagenet dynasty - Lancaster and York. The war ended with the victory of Henry Tudor of the House of Lancaster, who founded a dynasty that ruled England and Wales for 117 years. Roses were the distinctive badges of the two warring parties. The white rose, symbolizing the Virgin Mary, was used as a distinctive sign by the first Duke of York, Edmund Langley, in the 14th century. The scarlet rose became a symbol of the Plantagenet-Lancaster dynasty during the war. Perhaps it was invented as a counterbalance to the emblem of the enemy. The expression “War of the Roses” came into use in the 19th century, after the publication of the story “Anne of Geierstein” by Sir Walter Scott. Scott chose the title based on a fictional scene in William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part I, where the opposing sides choose their roses of different colors in the Church of the Temple. How little a person needs to be happy when there is no happiness, and how much is needed as soon as it appears. Quote from the work of Paustovsky K.G. Distant Years (Restless Youth) (1954). The author describes a boy who does not have his own home, who was abandoned by his parents. Paustovsky reasons: “I thought: how little a person ultimately needs for happiness when there is no happiness, and how much is needed as soon as it appears.” Just touch beauty with a careless hand, and it will disappear forever. Expression from the book of Paustovsky K.G. “The Tale of Life” “The Book of Wanderings” (1963). These words are spoken by the writer M.M. Prishvin to Paustovsky K.G. He reproached Paustovsky K.G. for the fact that he popularized Meshchera too much, as a result crowds of tourists poured there: “You know what you have done with your admiration for Meshchera! - he said to me with reproach and condemnation, like a careless boy. – In your quiet Solotcha, hundreds of dachas are already being built for the residents of Ryazan. Now go to the meadows and find at least one blooming spur. Look! There's no way you'll find it! If you touch beauty with a careless hand, it will disappear forever. Your contemporaries may be grateful to you, but your children’s children are unlikely to bow down for it. And how much strength there was in this very Meshchera for the development of a high folk spirit, folk poetry! You are an imprudent person, my dear. They did not save their Berendey kingdom. Yes, now in Meshchera you probably won’t find the spur even during the day.” Nothing in life comes back except our mistakes Quote from the work of Paustovsky K.G. Distant Years (Restless Youth) (1954). These are the words of Father Paustovsky: “There was meaning and expediency in the fact that the past is irreversible. I became convinced of this later, when I made two or three attempts to relive what I had already experienced. “Nothing in life comes back,” my father liked to say, “except our mistakes.” And the fact that nothing in life really repeated itself was one of the reasons for the deep attractiveness of existence.” .
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Aphorisms, quotes, sayings, phrases - Paustovsky Konstantin Georgievich.
- Cancer's future is behind it.
- The job of an artist is to create joy.
- Genuine prose always has its own rhythm.
- The more you know, the more interesting life is.
- One of the foundations of writing is a good memory.
- If people have a physique, then I have a body subtraction.
- And the executioners believe that they are fighting for the vital interests of the people.
- If a poet dreamed that he ran out of money, this is for poetry.
- Writing is not a craft or an occupation. Writing is a calling.
- There is an abyss of poetry in any area of human knowledge.
- Art creates good people, shapes the human soul.
- The wealth of associations speaks of the richness of the writers’ inner world.
- Waiting for happy days is sometimes much better than these very days.
- Let's not talk about love, because we still don't know what it is.
- Our criticism has a habit of exaggerating everything - both good and bad.
- The impulse for creativity can fade away just as easily as it arose if left without food.
- We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language.
- A famous writer is one who also publishes weak things. Famous is the one who is praised for them.
- A genius is always afraid that he is partly a graphomaniac; a graphomaniac never doubts that he is a genius.
- Only writers with the gift of improvisation can write without a prior plan.
- Love has thousands of aspects, and each of them has its own light, its own sadness, its own happiness and its own fragrance.
- Perseverance is also a property of talent. Some writers should be photographed not from their faces, but from their backsides.
- Ignorance makes a person indifferent to the world, and indifference grows slowly but irreversibly, like a cancerous tumor.
- I always write only by hand. The typewriter is a witness, and the work of a writer is an intimate matter. It requires complete solitude.
- To think that your writings can change life for the better is, of course, naive, but writing without believing in this is also impossible.
- There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.
- A person must be smart, simple, fair, brave and kind. Only then does he have the right to bear this high title - Man.
- By the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value.
- There are no great or small deeds if a person strives with all his heart for the great and just, for in this case all deeds have great weight and consequences.
- In my opinion, the main thing is not to forget the banal truth that you are the same as others, and therefore try not to cause people something that would make you feel worse.
- If you take away a person’s ability to dream, then one of the most powerful motivations that gives rise to culture, art, science and the desire to fight for a wonderful future will disappear.
- Anyone who is deprived of the feeling of sadness is as pitiful as a person who does not know what joy is, or who has lost the sense of the funny. The loss of at least one of these properties indicates irreparable spiritual limitation.
- I will not exchange Central Russia for the most famous and stunning beauties of the globe. I would give all the elegance of the Gulf of Naples with its feast of colors for a willow bush wet from the rain on the sandy shore of the Oka or for the winding Taruska river - on its modest banks I now often live for a long time.
