vladimir nabokov

• bir kelebek avcısı. ^{* * *} farklı boyutlarda yaşayan, entomoloji aşığı yazar. hatta demiş ki; "while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time" e o zaman buyurun;
  
  no free man needs a god; but was i free?
  how fully i felt nature glued to me
  and how my childish palate loved the taste
  half-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!
  
  my picture book was at an early age
  the painted parchment papering our cage:
  mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;
  twinned iris; and that rare phenomenon
  the iridule - when, beautiful and strange,
  in a bright sky above a mountain range
  one opal cloudlet in an oval form
  reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm
  which in a distant valley has been staged -
  for we are most artistically caged.”