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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. ”
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. ”
Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything. ”
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. ”
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. ”
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world. ”
You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything. ”
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. ”
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. ”
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. ”