"Over Babiy Yar there are no memorials. The steep hillside like a rough inscription. I am frightened. Today I am as ol…"

"No Jewish blood runs among my blood, but I am as bitterly and hardly hated by every anti-semite as if I were a Jew. B…"

"No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicle of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and plan…"

"И если умирает человек, с ним умирает первый его снег, и первый поцелуй, и первый бой..."

"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote."

"I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life"

"In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable."

"The hell with it. Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy."

"So on and on we walked without thinking of rest passing craters, passing fire, under the rocking sky of '41 tottering…"

"Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little, barefoot …"