I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.

The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.

Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss, Acquire their forms before we do

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.

Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.

I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.

Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.

Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.

A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.

the song of the deadheavy as rain on the wide banana leaveshard as drums

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.

Facebook is all about information and helping people share it.

Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.