"Cultural values ornament the State, endowing it with color, form, and, if you will, even gender. Inscriptions on Stat…"

"The separation of Culture and the State is the most significant event of our revolution."

"the poet has no fear of recurrence and is easily intoxicated on Classical wine."

"Today a kind of speaking in tongues is taking place. In sacred frenzy poets speak the language of all times, all cult…"

"the word wanders freely around the thing, like the soul around an abandoned, but not forgotten body."

"We live, but we do not feel the land beneath us, Ten steps away and our words cannot be heard."

"Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive…"

"The October Revolution could not but influence my work since it took away my "biography," my sense of individual sign…"

"Why can't we shake things up, why can't these good translators be utilized in collective undertakings?"

"Apples, bread, potatoes-from now on they will quench not only physical but spiritual hunger."