Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes
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Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and…
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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.
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In the church of my heart the choir is on fire
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If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female…
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They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and…
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Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I…
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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…
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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…
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Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you…
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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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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…
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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,…
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On I’ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On what feverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot – I, so big and…
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Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual…
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Love's boat has been shatteredagainst the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts,…
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