Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature has
It’s not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed,
On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors – mainly because they occupy a smaller
It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability gone rampant often
What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you
Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.
An ethical man doesn’t need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
I am neither an Occidental writer nor a Russian writer. I am an accidental writer.
The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse
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