Poetry Quote by Bertolt Brecht

“Unlike modern feminists, who argue for a redivision of household tasks within the family, increasing men's share of domestic responsibilities, Bolshevik theorists sought to…

— Wendy Z. Goldman

“Lenina suddenly remembered an occasion when, as a little girl at school, she had woken up in the middle of the night and become…

— Aldous Huxley

“We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of…

— Seamus Heaney

“Lenina was left to face the horrors of Malpais unaided. They came crowding in on her thick and fast. The spectacle of two young…

— Aldous Huxley

“But there was also a car—for the GDR an expensive car, a Russian Lada—that”

— Anna Funder

“There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven,…

— james salter

We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during…

— Leonid Brezhnev

“a small town outside of Arizona, Sergei Zukov, a Russian drug czar, questioned a young woman tied to a chair in her own home,”

— Jackie Collins

“In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that will come…

— John Steinbeck

The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem is about…

— Robert Hass

“The Rusanovs loved the People, their great People. They served the People and were ready to give their lives for the People. But as…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“...but in 1917 we had no cares except the mundane ones of starvation and occupation and civil war, and for those of us in…

— William T. Vollmann