“Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say”
Quote by Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian poet and one of the most important representatives of Soviet literature. His poetry works have distinct characteristics of the era and have had a profound impact on Soviet literature. more
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