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

He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.

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

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

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

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.