Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.