A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
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.
But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.