SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES......

"The clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gush,and the bloodied sun was barely visible.." 

            -Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937)( The Dragon: Fifteen stories) 

                                     Quoted from Goodreads

Spewed flame and the ancient fire began to smoke

Fiery tongues, a hissing, crashing, howling all around

And what can men do with their spades, ditches, and pails?

The forest is no more, it was devoured

Perhaps fields will be plowed here one day

Or perhaps a city will grow up alive with ringing sound and motion

All stone and crystal and iron and winged men will come here flying over seas and mountains from all ends of the world.

.....the blue winter silence and the golden silence of summer.

Only the tellers of tales will speak in many patterned words.....

About what had been.......

And stately green coated century old grandfathers

They will speak about all this to us who have 

                                         seen it with our own eyes.

And to those, the winged ones, who will come 

                                         in a hundred years to listen

And to marvel at it all as at a  fairy tale. ("In Old Russia")

"There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers by see only a wisp of smoke...." -Vincent van Gogh

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*Yevgeny Zamyatin ( 1884-1937) , author of sci fi and political satire. "The Dragon" is a collection of stories published between 1918 and 1935

                                              Very famous for his 1921 novel "We"