Alexander Blok Quotes

#1. Inside my soul a treasure is buried.

The key is mine and only mine.

How right you are, you drunken monster!

I know: the truth is in the wine.

("The Unknown Lady")

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#2. How often we sit weeping - you
and I - over the life we lead!
My friends, if you only knew
the darknes of the days ahead!

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#3. The mirror's light sparks in the eyes,

And horrified, my lids drawn tight,

I step back to that realm of night

Where not a single exit lies...

(Untitled: "I pass away this life of mine...")

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#4. What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

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#5. The bourgeois stands like a question mark,
Speechless, like the hungry cur,
The ancient world stands there behind him,
A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.

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#6. I once stirred thunder in the skies, And now, unlike the days of yore - Just tears in a drunken poet's eyes And laughter - from some whore.

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#7. Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

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#8. The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake water

A woman's shriek assaults the ear

While above, in the sky, inured to everything,

The moon looks on with a mindless leer

("The Unknown Lady")

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#9. With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution ... This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

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#10. The sinking of the Titanic has made me indescribably happy; there is, after all, an ocean.

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#11. stars, Where did such anguish come from?" And the stars tell him, The stars tell him everything.

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#12. Poor land, poor land, what do you mean
to the heart that moves in me?
Poor love, poor love, poor wife of mine,
why do you weep so bitterly?

(from Retribution book 2, I)

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#13. The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.

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