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Vladimir Mayakovsky
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“On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1" (1913); translation from Vladimir Mayakovsky. The Bedbug and Selected Poetry. Ed. with introd. by Patricia Blake. Trans. by Max Hayward and George Reavey. Reprint. Bloomington, In: Indiana University Press, 1975 [196…
“Tramp squares with rebellious treading! Up heads! As proud peaks be seen! In the second flood we are spreading Every city on earth will be clean.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Our March" (1917); translation from C. M. Bowra (ed.) A Book of Russian Verse (London: Macmillan, 1943) p. 125
“Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shrine or Factory?" (1918); translation from Mikhail Anikst et al. (eds.) Soviet Commercial Design of the Twenties (New York: Abbeville Press, 1987) p. 15
“A rhyme's … a barrel of dynamite. A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smoulders, the rhyme explodes – and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Conversation with the Inspector of Taxes about Poetry" (1926); translation from Chris Jenks Visual Culture (London: Routledge, 1995) pp. 86-7
“I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood – what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Back Home!", first version (1926); translation from Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975) p. 36
“Love for us is no paradise of arbors — to us love tells us, humming, that the stalled motor of the heart has started to work again.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter from Paris to Comrade Kostorov on the Nature of Love" (1928); translation from Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975) p. 213
“Agitprop sticks in my teeth too, and I'd rather compose romances for you – more profit in it and more charm. But I subdued myself, setting my heel on the throat of my own song.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the Top of My Voice" (1929-30); translation from Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975) pp. 223-5
“In parade deploying the armies of my pages, I shall inspect the regiments in line. Heavy as lead, my verses at attention stand, ready for death and for immortal fame.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the Top of My Voice" (1929-30); translation from Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975) p. 227
“Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) said by 1930 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Untitled last poem found after his death; translation from Martin Seymour-Smith Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975) vol. 4, p. 235
“I understand the power and the alarm of words – Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) said by 1930 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Untitled last poem found after his death; translation from Martin Seymour-Smith Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975) vol. 4, p. 235
“No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk – handsome, twentytwoyearold.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) said by 1930 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: W. Somerset Maugham (misattributed)
“If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) said by 1930 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hey, you! Heaven! Off with your hat! I am coming! Not a sound. The universe sleeps, its huge paw curled upon a star-infested ear.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) said by 1930 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source