Oh, artist, educate your apprentice, Don’t grudge your strengths for best his education, Let, after yours, his hand awkwardly try To copy signs of ABC-succession. Let him look then at you with lofty eyes, Sure, at the moment, he’s a genius, rather… Oh, artist, educate your apprentice, To have the one who’ll be your teacher further. Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, May, 2001