Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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.
Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.