A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodesโ and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.
Vladimir MayakovskyGentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?
Vladimir MayakovskyOn Iโll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On what feverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot โ I, so big and by no one needed?
Vladimir Mayakovsky