Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.
But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
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.
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.