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.
To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
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.