The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded to me very much like the tradition of a hired man in any world-class poem. That's what I was, a hired man. I was working for a collective farm.

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.

On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.