A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
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He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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