Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.