There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man..

But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent..

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness..

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage..

I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed….

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie..

To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature..

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..

Life is a rainbow which also includes black..

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. Wha….

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies..

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late..

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable..

Envy is an insult to oneself..

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?.

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage..

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage..

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers..

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them..