A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. |
Be equal to your talent, not your age./ At times let the gap between them be embarrassing. |
But what if it doesn't work ... ?/ and they jammed sticks/ In the wheels of the first locomotive/ To make sure it wouldn't work. |
Envy is an insult to oneself. |
Envy is an insult to oneself. |
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! |
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage. |
Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group. |
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. |
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them. |
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. |
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late |
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late |
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics, |
My first book was bad. It concentrated more on form than content, |