Quote Attibuted to Pushkin

[Carol Ueland]

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, “Всё на голову мою”/ Vse na golovu moiu
.  The phrase appears in Kushner’s poem “В отчаянье или в беде, беде,”/ V
otchaian’e ili v bede, bede in the following context:

В отчаянье или в беде, беде,
Названья хочешь знать несчастий? Утаю
Их; куст клубится толстокожий.
Как там, у Пушкина: «всё на главу мою
»
Что всё? Не спрашивай: у всех одно и то же.

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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