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.

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

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

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

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

To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.