And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook I read by myself, without people - Leafless, savage medical book, A problem book of gigantic radicals.

A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.

Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.

Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.

I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.

And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook I read by myself, without people - Leafless, savage medical book, A problem book of gigantic radicals.

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.