Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. There Was Once a Man.

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Commentary to the poem “I perceive neither anger nor blue...”

This poem calls to mind Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s words: “Suis rebus contentum esse maximae sunt divitiae.” (“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”)

Here also comes to mind Gabdulla Tukay’s poem “The Firs” (1909).

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