A woman's love for us increases
The less we love her, sooth to say—
She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases;
Caught fast, she cannot get away.


Eugene Onegin (1833) ch. 4, st. 1 (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Alexander Pushkin Quotes

A woman's love for us increases The less we love her, sooth to say— She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases; Caught fast, she cannot get away.

A woman's love for us increases The less we love her, sooth to say— She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases; Caught fast, she cannot get away.

A woman's love for us increases The less we love her, sooth to say— She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases; Caught fast, she cannot get away.

A woman's love for us increases The less we love her, sooth to say— She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases; Caught fast, she cannot get away.