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Solitude is very important in...

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

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Let the people who never find...

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

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It's just not easy to explain...

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

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At the very beginning of my c...

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

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There's simply too much fuss ...

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

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Get to know other worlds, if ...

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

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I usually write for the indiv...

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

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Take it not amiss, O speech, ...

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

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Unfortunately, poetry is not ...

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

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I'm fighting against the bad ...

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

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Keep up the good work, if onl...

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

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A Note Life is the only way t...

A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.

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Even boredom should be descri...

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?

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When I pronounce the word Fut...

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.

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But they know about us, they ...

But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.

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Is a decision made in advance...

Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?

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I've had the good fortune to ...

I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.

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Most of the earth's inhabitan...

Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there's no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.

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We're extremely fortunate not...

We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.

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Poets, if they're genuine, mu...

Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....