Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

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Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

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Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

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In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

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Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

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Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

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