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Silentium: 'There is a whole deep world of being in your soul'

2 mins | May 28, 2017
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Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev was a 19th C Russian poet and statesman, generally considered the last of three great Romantic poets of Russia. Penny Andrews reads his short lyric ‘Silentium’, published in The Guardian in a translation by Robert Chandler.

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