The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders, But I am no wolf by blood.

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.

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

Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you set aside your ego.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm like NO ONE and I'm just starting out and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

Sisters ruin everything. It's in their job description.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.

Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.