Quote Attibuted to Pushkin

[Ivan S. Eubanks]

I couldn't read any of the Russian text in your email, unfortunately, 
but you might try looking up one or more of the words in /Slovar' iazyka 
Pushkina/.  If the quote is correct, you should be able to track it down 
that way.


Ivan S. Eubanks
/Pushkin Review / ?????????? ???????/ <http://www.pushkiniana.org>

On 3/21/2011 4:46 PM, Carol Ueland wrote:
> Dear Pushkinisty!
>
>
>       I'm preparing notes to some of my recent translations of poetry by
> Aleksandr Kushner and have been trying to track down a reference in a lyric.
>   It's a quote attributed to Pushkin, "Всёнаголо&#1074;умою"/ Vse na golovu moiu
> .  The phrase appears in Kushner's poem "Вотчаяньеиливбеде,беде,"/ V
> otchaian'e ili v bede, bede in the following context:
>
> Вотчаяньеиливбеде,бе&#1076;е,
> Названьяхочеш&#1100;знатьнесчаст&#1080;й?Утаю
> Их;куст&#1082;лубитсятолстокожий.
> Кактам,&#1091;Пушкина: «всёнаглавумою...»
> Чтовсё?&#1053;еспрашивай:ув&#1089;еходноитоже.
>
> The line does not appear in Shaw's Concordance and the usual quote searches
> on Yandex and Google.ru haven't produced a likely match.  I've asked the
> poet and he vaguely remembers it cited by a friend of Pushkin's.  I'm
> stumped --any guesses?
>
> Many thanks, Carol
>
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