She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments..

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life..

An unshared happiness is not happiness..

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary..

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune..

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it..

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth..

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning..

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world..

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom..

How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stro….

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup..

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice..

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquire….

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped..

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object….

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared….

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paint….

I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specia….

It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if y….

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be di….