I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place..

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time..

I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and le….

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists..

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for ….

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my ….

As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called bl….

Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very ….

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?.

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life..

I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind..

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art..

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her..

I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want ….

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances..

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust..

Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obl….

Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, tou….

A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The ….

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full blo….