"Formerly I believed books were made like this:……" — Vladimir Mayakovsky
"Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say"
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
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15 Quotes by Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in…
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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…
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They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light…
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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…
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Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can…
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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…
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