Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.