In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
I'm very inspired by the artfulness and soulfulness of the Russian people.
The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour.
There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
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