Russian Poet Quotes

#1. I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.

Joseph Brodsky

#2. Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

John Dos Passos

#3. Your happiness is a gift because it literally brings out the best in you.

Robert Holden

#4. But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

Emily Giffin

#5. Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his - Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva - though their work is more "urgent" than most American poetry, seem to me to operate at a lesser charge than Mandelstam.

Christian Wiman

#6. What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

Alan Watts

#7. We're alone then, all of us, even me, each treading a deserted highway, toting in a bundle on a shouldered stick the schemes, the flow charts, for unconscious advancement.

Ian McEwan

#8. Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. Know thy birth!
For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

John Milton

#10. Here's how I used to think
you made a book:
a poet comes along,
mouth half open, inspired,
then suddenly the idiot bursts into song -
fancy that!

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#11. I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.

David Prowse

#12. And you, fallen Wendy, eviscerated by the eternal recurrence of it all, hear Peter snarl at you for growing guilty and big and old...

Richard Powers

#13. I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

Lillian E. Smith

#14. Answers comes only when questions are asked

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Beauty can be created, knowledge learned, but talent can neither be purchased nor taught.

Danielle L. Jensen

#16. A Russian, the poet David Samoilov, said later, We were all expecting war. But we were not expecting that war.

Max Hastings