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

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

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.