“Pushkin could cry hot tears, and he who can weep can hope. "I want to live, so that I may think and suffer," he says; and it seems as if the word "to suffer," which is so beautiful in the poem, just fell in accidentally, because there was no better rhyme in Russian for "to die.” SufferingHopePushkin Book:All Things are Possible Source: All Things are Possible
“It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself.” TruthHappinessDestinyDreamsBiasLife GoalIllusionsPushkin Author:Anton Chekhov
“Although we had had no precise exponents of realism, yet after Pushkin it was impossible for a Russian writer to depart too far from actuality. Even those who did not know what to do with "real life" had to cope with it as best they could. Hence, in order that the picture of life should not prove too depressing, the writer must provide himself in due season with a philosophy.” LifePhilosophyLiteratureRealismRussianPushkinTurgenevExistensialism Book:All Things are Possible Source: All Things are Possible
“In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature” YearsMindHas BeensEndsLiteratureFictionTreatsEnglandPraisePressesBritishBrilliantNewspapersKicksDecemberYear EndPushkin Author:Sylvia Brownrigg
“I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.” IfsFactsMissingTaughtMissing SomethingPushkin Author:Clive James
“My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.” LooksI CanNamesUniversityNieceMelbourneMy NiecePushkin Author:Clive James
“I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain.” MarkInternationalGreekSandTranslationsCharlotteDostoyevskyBrontePushkinLev Tolstoy Author:Vera Nazarian
“Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is amazing. The human narrative you get out of "War and Peace" is universal.” IfsHumansWarCultureLiteratureUniversalRussiaNarrativeRussian LiteratureChekhovDostoyevskyPushkin Author:Andre Leon Talley
“Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep their hearts clean of anything but kisses and theater and dancing. They must never read Pushkin; they must never say clever things; they must never have sly eyes or wear their hair loose and wander around barefoot, or they will draw his attention!” KnowsHeartEyeCareGirlAttentionHairKissingDrawsTheaterDancingCleanCarefulRingsCleverMagazinesWanderRibbonsSlyBarefootWedding RingPushkin Book:Deathless Source: Deathless
“In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.” LifeLongStatesWholeDreamRealityArtistMemoriesPowerfulBrainConditionsSickFilledExtraordinaryDetailsImpressionSettingSettingsNervousConsistentWakingDreamerDelicateMonstrousNervous SystemMorbidActualitySemblanceDerangedWhole PictureVividnessPushkin Book:Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections Source: Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections
“I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.” PeopleWritingFirstsBookRealGuyCultureLiteratureFunDealsOne DayDrugFlowSuicideCommittedConnectedHipsRoughChaptersAddictAlcoholicsDrug AddictAmerican LiteratureMommaHad FunMy MommaPushkin Author:Mike Tyson
“But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.” WorldFallSinPaySacrificeThis WorldGeniusUnconsciousExceptionSuperiorityPreyMagnitudePushkin Author:Vissarion Belinsky
“When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.” MenDoneWhiteTeachLearningWhite ManPushkin Author:Mary McLeod Bethune