--- title: "4 Yuri Olesha Quotes - Famous Poet" description: "Russian writer (1899-1960)... | Yury Karlovich Olesha was a Russian and Soviet novelist. He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 2..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbd/yuri-olesha-68219_flowers_once-he-raised-his-arm-to-show-his-frien_532777.jpg" --- # Yuri Olesha (1899–1960) Poet **4** quotes in **15** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Yuri Olesha was a poet. ## Quick Facts About Yuri Olesha Born February 19, 1899 Died May 10, 1960 Profession Poet ## About Yuri Olesha Russian writer (1899-1960)... \| Yury Karlovich Olesha was a Russian and Soviet novelist. He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century, one of the few to have succeeded in writing works of lasting artistic value despite the stifling censorship of the era. His works are delicate balancing acts that supe ## Quotes by Yuri Olesha > [“Once he raised his arm to show his friends the back of his hand, where the veins were laid out in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuri-olesha/once-he-raised-his-arm-to-show-his-friends-the-back-of-his-hand-where/) [Yuri Olesha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuri-olesha/) [Flowers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flowers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbd/yuri-olesha-68219_flowers_once-he-raised-his-arm-to-show-his-frien_532777.jpg) > [“…you know, sometimes an electric lightbulb goes out all of a sudden. Fizzles, you say. And this burned-out bulb, if you shake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuri-olesha/you-know-sometimes-an-electric-lightbulb-goes-out-all-of-a-sudden/) [Yuri Olesha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuri-olesha/) [Broken pieces](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/broken-pieces/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b9/yuri-olesha-68219_broken-pieces_you-know-sometimes-an-electric-lightbulb_1252910.jpg) > [“Human life is insignificant. What’s ominous is the movement of the spheres. When I settled here, a sun speck sat on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuri-olesha/human-life-is-insignificant-what-s-ominous-is-the-movement-of-the/) [Yuri Olesha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuri-olesha/) [Eternity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eternity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1e/yuri-olesha-68219_human-life_human-life-is-insignificant-what-s-omino_1348887.jpg) > [“Things don't like me. Furniture purposely sticks out its leg for me. A polished corner once literally bit me. My blanket and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuri-olesha/things-don-t-like-me-furniture-purposely-sticks-out-its-leg-for-me-a/) [Yuri Olesha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuri-olesha/) [Complicated relationship](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/complicated-relationship/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95b/yuri-olesha-68219_complicated-relation_things-don-t-like-me-furniture-purposely_2349279.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuri-olesha/#itemlist", "name": "Yuri Olesha Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Once he raised his arm to show his friends the back of his hand, where the veins were laid out in the shape of a tree, and he broke out in the following improvisation: “Here,” he said, “is the tree of life. Here is a tree that tells me more about life and death than the flowering and fading of tree gardens. I don’t remember when exactly I discovered that my wrist was blooming like a tree…but it must have been during that wonderful time when the flowering and fading of trees still spoke to me not of life and death but of the end and beginning of the school year! It was blue then, this tree, blue and slender, and the blood, which at the time I thought of not as a liquid but as light, rose like the dawn over it and turned my metacarpus’s entire landscape into a Japanese watercolor… “The years passed, I changed, and the tree changed, too. “I remember a splendid time; the tree was spreading. The pride I felt, seeing its inexorable flowering! It became gnarled and reddish brown—and therein lay its strength! I could call it my hand’s might rigging. But now, my friends! How decrepit it is, how rotten! “The branches seem to be breaking off, cavities have appeared…It’s sclerosis, my friends! 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