1693: Lesya Ukrainka on Freethinking, Feminist, and Modernist Reflections
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/05/25
“I want to laugh through tears, sing songs amid misfortune, hope without hope, and live. Away with sorrowful thoughts!”
“No! I am alive! I shall live forever! I have in my heart that which does not die.”
“Whoever frees themselves will be free; whoever frees another will take that person into bondage.”
“You may kill me, but you cannot force me to live.”
“Word, why are you not hard steel, sparkling so brightly in the midst of battle?”
“One is no poet whose thoughts do not fly freely through the world.”
“One is no poet who forgets the terrible wounds of the people.”
“I do not want golden laurels; with them I shall not win happiness.”
“I see the future; I see the ages to come.”
“She knows that no one will accept her words, but she cannot be silent, because her soul and her word will not submit to the yoke.”
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