A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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!
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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.
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
