Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it...

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it...

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals...

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals...

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

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

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness,...

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness,...

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must...

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must...

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.