Quotes by Vladimir Mayakovsky - Page 1

In the church of my heart the choir is on fire
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Church
Fire
Heart
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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Love
Boat
Everyday
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To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Heart
Humming
Motor
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If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Men
Clouds
Wish
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But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Communism
Plunge
Sky
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Comrade life, let us march faster, March faster through what's left of the five-year plan.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Faster
March
Years
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On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Pavement
Rude
Soul
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My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Poetry
Craftsman
House
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A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Cities
Lines
Rhyme
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Too slow, the wagons of years, The oxen of days--too glum. Our god is the god of speed, Our heart--our battle-drum.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Heart
Oxen
Years
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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 / Poet
Hurt
Pain
Stupid
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On I’ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On what feverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot – I, so big and by no one needed?
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Bigs
Delirium
Night
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Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Mean
Needs
Stars
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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.
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Country
Land
Rain
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In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Lines
Sky
Towns
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There’s no grandfatherly fondness in me, There are no gray hairs in my soul! Shaking the world with my voice and grinning, I pass you by, - handsome, Twentytwoyearold.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Hair
Soul
Voice
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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 / Poet
Art
Home
Museums
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Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult to die. To make life is more difficult by far.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Delight
Life Is
This Life
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If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Men
Clouds
Sunset
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Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Play
Soul
Two
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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 / Poet
Alarms
Coffins
Theatre
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Were I as quiet as thunder, how I'd wail and whine! One groan of mine would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering. And if I'd end up by roaring with all of its power of lungs and more - the comets, distressed, would wring their hands and from the sky's roof leap in a fever.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Hands
Roaring
Sky
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If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.
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Eye
Horse
Passion
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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
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Book
Heart
Song
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Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I have no cause to wake or trouble you. And, as they say, the incident is closed. Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind. Now you and I are quits. Why bother then To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts. Behold what quiet settles on the world. Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars. In hours like these, one rises to address The ages, history, and all creation.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Hurt
Pain
Stars
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They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and how he "ladored,"he said, the dark aroma of her hair blending with crushed lily stalks, Turkish cigarettes and the lassitude that comes from "lass." "No, no, don't," she said, I must wash, quick-quick, Ada must wash; but for yet another immortal moment they stood embraced in the hushed avenue, enjoying as they had never enjoyed before, the "happy-forever" feeling at the end of never-ending fairy tales.
Vladimir Mayakovsky / Poet
Dark
Hair
Light
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