Top 34 Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes

#1. Girl: The kid buys a new tie and you curse him like he was Ramsay MacDonald.

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#2. Love
for us
is no paradise of arbors
to us
love tells us, humming,
that the stalled motor
of the heart
has started to work
again.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes #96042
#3. A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes - and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

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#4. Too slow, the wagons of years,
The oxen of days
too glum.
Our god is the god of speed,
Our heart
our battle-drum.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes #155455
#5. Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!

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#6. I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.

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#7. Gentle souls!
You play your love on the violin.
The crude ones play it on the drums violently.
But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me
And become just two lips entirely?

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Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes #426980
#8. Soon, sampled by everyone,
Stale and pallid,
I'll come out
And mumble toothlessly
That today I'm
Remarkably candid.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes #563920
#9. The attitude of the American to the dollar contains poetry.

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#10. But I
have tamed
myself
I have stomped
on the throat
of my own song

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Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes #717991
#11. In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes #797171
#12. 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!

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#13. If you like
I'll be furious flesh elemental,
or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like-
I'll be extraordinary gentle,
not a man but - a cloud in trousers.

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#14. Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
March
faster through what's left
of the five-year plan.

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#15. It must be a little love, - a baby, sort of,
It shies away when the cars honk and hiss,
But adores the bells on the horse-tram.

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#16. I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

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#17. Maria!
How can I fit a tender word into bulging ears?

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#18. Sing, of delight drink deep,
Drain spring by cups, not by thimbles.
Heart step up your beat!
Our breasts be the brass of cymbals.

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#19. My verse
has brought me
no roubles to spare:
no craftsmen have made
mahogany chairs for my house.

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#20. Men, crumpled like bed-sheets in hospitals,
And women, battered like overused proverbs.

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#21. But I,
from poetry's skies,
plunge into communism,
because
without it
I feel no love.

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#22. Read iron books!
"To signs" (1913)

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#23. There's a monument due me by rank already
I'd blow the damn thing up with dynamite
So strongly I hate every kind of dead thing
So much I adore every kind of life!

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#24. Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.

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#25. If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!

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#26. A chestnut-haired child
Cheering up, went
and stood in his stall.
And took the whole incident
like a young colt -
and to live seemed worthwhile,
and to labor,
worthy.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes #1463479
#27. Our planet is poorly equipped for delight.
One must snatch gladness from the days that are.
In this life
it's not difficult to die.
To make life
is more difficult by far.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes #1582464
#28. There's no grandfatherly fondness in me,
There are no gray hairs in my soul!
Shaking the world with my voice and grinning,
I pass you by, - handsome,
Twentytwoyearold.

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#29. The love boat has crashed against the everyday
You and I, we are quits
And there is no use listing mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes #1686508
#30. Then there's amortization,
the deadliest of all;
amortization
of the heart and soul.

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#31. In the church of my heart the choir is on fire

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#32. To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.

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#33. Oleg Bard: I understand, but by virtue of that power of imagination which, according to [Georgi] Plekhanov, is granted to Marxists, I can already see as through a prism, so to speak, the triumph of your class as symbolized by your sublime, ravishing, elegant, and class-conscious wedding!

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#34. Have you seen
a dog lick the hand that thrashed it?!

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