Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory ... it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.
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!
My first book was bad. It concentrated more on form than content,
In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
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.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.
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.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
No, Stalin did not die. He thinks that death can be fixed. We removed him from the mausoleum. But how do we remove Stalin from Stalin's heirs
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions that were checking on Russian citizens going abroad. I am very happy that in history my name will be connected to this period.
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