Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us..

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….

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

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….

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 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….

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

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

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….

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..

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

As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the ….

About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but i….

You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I….

Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine. It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to bet….

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman..

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself..

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It b….

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them..

I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardene….