Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy..

No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet..

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….

Life is a rainbow which also includes black..

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

Envy is an insult to oneself..

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful..

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

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..

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….

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