Why is the word yes so brief? it should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection yo…

- Vera Pavlova

Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if noth…

- Vera Pavlova

Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been.

- Vera Pavlova

The only thing I hope for is that, regardless of what the outward world is for different people, different nations, I hope their internal world is si…

- Vera Pavlova