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

Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.

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.

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

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.

Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss, Acquire their forms before we do