Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
From Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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