We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.

Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

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