Poet Quotes

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
A heart makes a good home for the friend.
If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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