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

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

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

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.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.