With their creativity, these writers changed the history of literature of the 20th century, making their significant, invaluable contribution to it. They are quoted, referred to, talked about and argued about. It is undeniable, but it is a fact that these names are always heard. There is no person who has not at least once heard about these writers or held their books in their hands. So let’s give them the floor today, remembering the most striking and controversial quotes 20 best writers of the past century.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
His works, shrouded in mystery and myth, are loved and read all over the world. Being the creator of the current “ magical realism”, he wanted to tell people so much and did! Many of his quotes are about love and this is not surprising! After all, the heroes of his works knew how to live and love truly.
“Perhaps in this world you are only a person, but for someone you are the whole world.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The government feared him like fire, his relatives loved him with all their souls, and the intellectuals respected and idolized him. Solzhenitsyn never stopped loving his homeland and thinking about it for a second, even when he was far beyond its borders. He lived a long life full of trials and hardships, leaving behind a huge literary heritage.
“Education does not improve intelligence.”
"Life is given for happiness."
“There are many smart things in the world, but few good things.”
Carlos Castaneda
The books of the writer and thinker Carlos Castaneda became a real discovery for some, and for others new point view of the surrounding world. His worldview is unusual for a common man. And to the series of books devoted to shamanism, the author himself used the term “magic,” although he clarified that it was not enough to fully reveal the essence of the teachings of our ancestors.
“If you don't like what you get, change what you give ”.
Paulo Coelho
Like no other writer in the world, Paulo Coelho helps readers look at things from a different angle, find greatness even in small things and look at life with constant optimism. He is loved and read all over the world, and the circulation of his 18 books has long surpassed 350 million copies.
“If you dare to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
Jorge Luis Borges
An inimitable poet, writer and thinker, Borges was the recipient of numerous awards. Despite being blind in the second half of his life, he still clearly saw and depicted human souls in his works.
“Some people are proud of every book they write, I’m proud of every book I read.”
Strugatsky brothers
Boris and Arkady Strugatsky are perhaps the most famous brother writers. Idols of millions of people, they write about the future, about man and the world. Their works have long become classics of the genre and part of the lives of admirers of the Strugatskys’ talent. How to do right choice, not getting lost and finding yourself - these are the questions that their creativity answers.
“A person needs money so that he never thinks about it.”
Ray Bradbury
It is believed that it was thanks to this dreamer writer that readers showed incredible interest in the fantasy genre and science fiction. What did Bradbury think about and what did he want to say? Read in quotes:
“ When a person is 17, he knows everything. If he’s 27 and still knows everything, then he’s still 17.”
Umberto Eco
This modern writer is considered one of the most erudite people. He worked on television and in the press, and has a lot to talk about in lectures, which he still gives around the world. In 2010, Eco said that he was unlikely to write another novel, so hurry up to enjoy the works already written and replenish your stock with another author’s quote:
“Nothing encourages a coward more than the cowardice of another person.”
Erich Maria Remarque
This amazingly delicate and vulnerable man doubted his talent all his life. He went through the war, where he was seriously wounded, and experienced deep, but, unfortunately, unrequited feelings. Remarque's books are full of feelings and images that lived in his heart. Being a writer lost generation“, he always raised the topic of war and love. His famous quotes about them:
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“The first person you think about in the morning and last man The thing you think about at night is either the reason for your happiness or the reason for your pain. ”
Ernest Hemingway
The life of this writer full of surprises and adventures aroused no less interest among people than his numerous stories and novels. Concise on the one hand, but so comprehensive on the other, the style in which Hemingway wrote was forever imprinted on the history of 20th century literature. From his quotes, people often learn something from their own lives:
“All people in the world are divided into two categories. It’s easy with the first ones, just as easy without them. It’s very difficult with the latter, but it’s completely impossible to live without them.”
George Orwell
The writer of an ironic, sharp mind is known primarily for his imperishable works “Animal Farm” and “1984”. His works are often replete with the horrors of a totalitarian regime. And although many of Orwell’s quotes, fortunately, did not come true, reading them, each time you wince at how prophetic they sound:
“Freedom is the ability to say that two and two are four. ”
Vladimir Nabokov
Master of words, expert human souls and the author of works about love, was a true citizen of the world and an amazingly versatile person. Nabokov could study female and male psychology, combining this activity with his fascination with butterflies. By the way, the new species he discovered are now named after him.
“Memory resurrects everything except smells. But nothing brings back the past so completely as the smell that was once associated with it.”
Jerome David Salinger
It seems that living against the system was incredibly important to Salinger. He left literature, having written one single, but world-famous novel, “The Catcher in the Rye.” Left the city for a remote village. Being a rebel by nature, the author of the cult work served as an example for many generations of the same rebels. And throughout his life, Salinger lived as he saw fit, and not as society expected of him.
“I always say “it’s very nice to meet you” when I’m not at all pleased. But if you want to live with people, you have to say things.”
Eugene Ionesco
Despite the fact that the writer is considered one of the founders of the “theater of the absurd,” Ionesco himself has repeatedly said that his plays are as realistic as the whole real world And surrounding reality. And his quotes - the best for that confirmation:
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“Better pie in the sky than a lump in the throat.”
John R.R. Tolkien
The novel “The Lord of the Rings” brought John Tolkien worldwide fame, and his book became one of the most read in the 20th century. The writer’s work had a huge impact on the fantasy genre in particular, and on world culture generally. Today John Tolkien is listed as one of the "50 Greatest" British writers since 1945” and is rightfully considered one of the most successful writers of the last century.
“We don't choose the times. We can only decide how to live in the times that have chosen us.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Even though this American writer was the brightest representative“lost generation”, he himself attributed his works to the “jazz era”, which he himself invented. Today there is hardly a person who has not yet read or heard about his novel “The Great Gatsby”.
“It often happens that an important period in a person’s life begins with some trifling episode.”
Kurt Vonnegut
Among the most famous science fiction writers and satirists, Kurt Vonnegut went through considerable trials in his life. He saw war, suffered setbacks in his career, but still did not give up on this world. In his books, the writer was not afraid to make fun of even the most tragic moments. This is all he is.
“And although people are stupid and cruel, look what a beautiful day it is today.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In the books of this famous French writer Themes of love, nostalgia for childhood and other purely personal experiences were harmoniously intertwined. Despite the fact that the writer was given such short life, he managed to leave behind many stories, imbued with love for all living things.
“Loving does not mean looking at each other, loving means looking in the same direction.”
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a kind of unique literary environment 20th century. His works, imbued with fear of the world and the absurd, evoke a whole range of disturbing feelings in readers. No other book by any other writer will evoke such a reaction. By the way, most The works of the German publicist were published after his death. Kafka quotes often contain teachings and criticisms:
“ Happiness excludes old age. He who retains the ability to see beauty does not grow old ”.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
He is called the most mystical writer of his time and a fighter against Soviet power. Refusing to write about five-year plans and socialist realism, Bulgakov had to face censorship and refusal to publish. For a long time his works lay on the table, and when they saw the light of day, they were immediately sorted into quotes.
“There are no evil people in the world, there are only unhappy people.”
“He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”
Omar Khayyam
Great Persian sage, philosopher, astronomer, mathematician and poet. His famous rubais are known in every corner of the world. His works are imbued with kindness and high moral values.
“Truth and lies are separated by a distance as wide as a hair.”
“If a scoundrel gives you medicine, pour it out! If a sage pours poison, accept it!”
Richard Bach
An amazing American writer of our time, his philosophical works full deep meaning, although they are written very easily and vividly. He is a descendant of the talented classical composer Johann Bach.
“No desire is given to a person without the strength to fulfill it; perhaps we will just have to work hard for it.”
“To become free and happy, we must sacrifice only boredom. However, this is not always an easy sacrifice.
Oscar Wilde
This talented writer was once called “the man-paradox.” He was incredibly elegant, but at the same time bright, and all his works instantly became popular!
“I have heard so much slander against you that I have no doubt: you are a wonderful person!”
“Be yourself, the other roles are already taken.”
Marina Tsvetaeva
This talented poetess lived a very bright, rich life So was her work. Her love lyrics very thin and sharp at the same time. Although she did not achieve recognition during her lifetime, it is now difficult to find a person who has not heard her name.
“Wings give freedom only in flight; folded behind the back they carry only weight.”
Quotes that teach life: the best from great writers updated: November 8, 2018 by: mila ognevich
The Russian language is rightfully considered one of the richest languages peace. Our selection of quotes includes statements and reflections of the great Russian classics of literature about the originality and greatness of the Russian language.
A.I.Kuprin
Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, lush, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent poetic... instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future... In a marvelous script, the people wove the invisible network of the Russian language: bright, like a rainbow after the spring rain, accurate, like arrows, sincere, like a song over the cradle, melodious... A dense world , on which he threw the magic net of the word, submitted to him like a bridled horse.
A.N. Tolstoy
Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing to do, but an urgent necessity.
A.I. Kuprin
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how can one not fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
I.S. Turgenev
Russian language in in capable hands and from experienced lips he is handsome, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
A.I.Kuprin
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is capable of performing miracles.
I.S. Turgenev
There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.
K.G. Paustovsky
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with amazing speed.
Maxim Gorky
You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and truly, another name is more precious than the thing itself.
N.V. Gogol
There is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, would burst out from under the very heart, would seethe and vibrate so vividly, as aptly said Russian word.
N.V. Gogol
May there be honor and glory to our language, which in its very native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud majestic river - rustles and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly pours into the soul, forming everything measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice!
N.M. Karamzin
Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilled writers, is quickly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all.
A.S. Pushkin
Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct relationship, and give a phrase ease and proper sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notation. They hold the text firmly and do not allow it to crumble.
K.G. Paustovsky
To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult and common sense, and sound taste.
V.G. Belinsky
Only by mastering the original material as perfectly as possible, that is, native language, we will be able to be as perfect as possible
learn a foreign language, but not before.
F.M. Dostoevsky
Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I don’t like words with a lot of hissing and whistling sounds, so I avoid them.
A.P. Chekhov
Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms.
N.A.Dobrolyubov
The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, internal lyrical feelings, “the scurrying of life,” a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and amazing passion.
A.I. Herzen
Among the magnificent qualities of our language there is one that is absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable. It lies in the fact that its sound is so diverse that it contains the sound of almost all the languages of the world.
K.G. Paustovsky
The natural wealth of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to time with your heart, in close communication with a simple person and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket you can become an excellent writer.
MM. Prishvin
By the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also about its civic value.
K.G. Paustovsky
To handle the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly.
A.N. Tolstoy
But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that situation... on the one hand... on the other hand - and all this without any need. “Nevertheless” and “to the extent that” the officials composed. I read and spit.
A.P. Chekhov
The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word.
M.A. Sholokhov
The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its drawbacks, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vsha, -vshi, -vshu, -shcha, -shchi. On the first page of your story, “lice” crawls in large numbers: those who worked, those who spoke, those who arrived. It is quite possible to do without insects.
Maxim Gorky
You can do wonders with the Russian language!
The collection includes quotes from great writers:
- The era of the great offensive of the burghers. And in the forefront of this terrible army are women. It's sad, but true. V. Shukshin
- Learn to live even when life becomes unbearable. Make it useful. Nikolai Alexandrovich Ostrovsky
- What makes a man rich is his heart. Wealth is determined not by what a person has, but by what he is. Henry Ward Beecher
- Only unloved women are never late. Alexandre Dumas the father
- Being interesting is the first responsibility of an obscure author. The right to be boring belongs only to those writers who have already become famous. Edmund Burke
- The most virtuous woman is the one whom nature created the most passionate, and reason made the coldest. Emile Zola
- Jealousy is one part of love and ninety-nine parts of self-love. F. La Rochefoucauld
- Russia is a game of nature, not of the mind. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- The greatest skill of a writer is the ability to cross out. He who knows how and who has the strength to cross out his own will go far. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- Nature... awakens in us the need for love... Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
- Time never stands still, life is constantly evolving, human relations change every fifty years. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- The beautiful is life. Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
- First and most important quality women - meekness. Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Even cruel hearts are overcome by a kind request. Albius Tibullus
- The description of a flower with love for nature is much more comprehensive civic feeling than exposing bribe takers... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- A friendship that ended never really began. Publilius Syrus
- I hate all kinds of dead things! I love all kinds of life! Vladimir Mayakovsky
- If you were guaranteed absolute success at one thing, what goal would you set for yourself? Brian Tracy
- Our civilization is just beginning, and we cannot imagine, even with the most ardent imagination, to what power over nature it will bring us. Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
- Life is a big surprise. Perhaps death will be an even bigger surprise. Vladimir Nabokov
- We are rarely tied to a woman by what attracted us to her. John Collins
- Life is not a property to be protected, but a gift to be shared with others. William Faulkner
- Love is what happens to men and women who do not know each other. Somerset Maugham
- Remember my testament: never invent any plot or intrigue. Take what life itself gives. Life is much richer than all our imaginations! No imagination can come up with what the most ordinary, ordinary life sometimes gives you, respect life! Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- He who does not love nature does not love man, is not a citizen. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- The idea and its embodiment must arise simultaneously and inseparably from each other. Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Like the fruit of a tree, life is sweetest just before it begins to fade. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
- Every person is an artist of his own own life, drawing strength and inspiration from himself. Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov
- Life is nothing more than a constantly conquered contradiction. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
- Shout - anyone will hear, whisper - the closest one will hear, and only the lover will hear what you are silent about.
- Life is eternity, death is just a moment. M.Yu. Lermontov
- It is better to write for yourself without having readers than to write for readers without yourself. Cyril Connolly
- Women only love those they don't know. Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov
- Women without male society fade, and men without female society become stupid. Anton Chekhov
- You have to be a complete idiot to write not for money. Samuel Johnson
- A woman is a failed man. Jack London
- There is no point where you can say, “Well, now I’m successful. You can take a nap.” Carrie Fisher
- Writers are people who demand vocabulary pay in cash. Michael Augustin
- If life does not seem to you to be a great joy, it is only because your mind is misdirected. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- A writer is someone you can silence by closing his book. Max Grelnik
- A day is a small life, and you have to live it as if you were supposed to die now, and you were unexpectedly given another day. Maxim Gorky
- A writer should write a lot, but should not rush. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- Any weakening of mental life in society inevitably entails an increase in material inclinations and vile egoistic instincts. Fedor Tyutchev
- In addition to the producing person, there are also higher species. Friedrich Nietzsche
- Outside the people there is no art, no truth, no life, nothing. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
- Drunkenness does not give birth to vices: it reveals them. Happiness does not change morals: it emphasizes them. Socrates
- In art, always and at all times, there are two motivating principles - knowledge and affirmation: knowledge of the mental nature of man and the affirmation of this nature in reality. A. N. Tolstoy
- Becoming a writer is very easy. There is no freak who has not found a mate, and no nonsense that has not found a suitable reader. Therefore, don’t be shy... Write about whatever you want... It’s very difficult to become a writer who is published and read. To do this: be absolutely literate and have a talent the size of at least a lentil grain. Chekhov, “Rules for beginning authors”
- To be honest, inaccessible to the world and a courtesan for her husband means to be a woman of genius. Honore de Balzac
- What is easy to read was written with great difficulty. Enrique Hardiel Poncela
- A person who sees life in its true light and interprets it romantically is doomed to despair. George Bernard Shaw
- Anyone who does not expect to have a million readers should not write a single line. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- The artist always writes about the main things in a person’s life. When a writer says: I am writing about the construction of a water pumping station, I feel sorry for both him and the reader. Yuri Kazakov
- Killing time is suicide. D. Pekk
- Although human life there is no price, we always act as if there is something even more valuable. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Study and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- If you want to write, sit and write. If you want to get published, go ahead and get published. But if someone wants to be a writer - that is, to speak in front of readers, not go to work, live on fees, stop by the editorial office for tea and cognac, travel around the world, hold conversations in creative houses, talk through smoky nights with colleagues about the problems of literature , casually take a writer's card out of his pocket - he was lost with his injured pride and the sign of involvement in literary process. Mikhail Weller, “The Knife of Seryozha Dovlatov”
- I've had ideals all my life. And so, realizing that they were no longer within my reach, I began to complain. It's very nice to complain... John Galsworthy
- A person cannot begin to write without accumulating a certain reserve of bitterness. Ginzburg, Lidia Yakovlevna
- Only that humor will live that arose on the basis of life's truth. Mark Twain
- I was amazed at how helpless our mind, our reason, our heart turn out to be when we need to make the slightest change, untie one knot, which life itself then unravels with incomprehensible ease. Marcel Proust
- Tact is good taste in behavior and demeanor, and good manners - good taste in conversation and speech. Nicolas-Sebastian Chamfort
- IN immoral society all inventions that increase man’s power over nature are not only not good, but undoubted and obvious evil. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- The humble author strives not to lie. Big - aims to tell the truth. Leonid Zorin
- After all, in every case the existence of two parties is revealed, conservative and progressive, eternal parties corresponding to the two sides of human nature; force of habit and desire for improvement. Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
- Remember that happiness does not depend on who you are or what you have; it depends entirely on what you think about it. Dale Carnegie
- All people, from the very beginning and before any legal act, are in possession of the land, that is, they have the right to be where nature or chance placed them. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- Kindness in a woman, not seductive glances, will win my love. William Shakespeare
- Writers who embellish language and treat it as an object of art thereby make it a more flexible tool, more suitable for conveying thought. So is the analyst, pursuing purely aesthetic purposes, contributes to the creation of a language better suited to satisfy the physicist. Jules Henri Poincaré
- If there is no meaning in death, then there was no meaning in life. Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov
- Scripture is industrious idleness. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- A woman is the embodiment of matter triumphing over the spirit. Oscar Wilde
- The nationality of the writer is determined by the language. The language in which he writes. Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov
- A woman can leave her lover, but she will never leave her dresses. Erich Maria Remarque
- We ourselves are created from dreams And this little life of ours is surrounded by Sleep... William Shakespeare
- Women have only one means of making us happy and thirty thousand means of making us unhappy. Heinrich Heine
- I'd rather be ashes and dust! It would be better for my flame to dry up in a blinding flash than for mold to choke it out! Jack London
- Life is without beginning and end. Opportunity awaits us all. Alexander Blok
- He who did not know how to limit himself never knew how to write. Nicola Boileau
- Life is a deception with enchanting melancholy... S. A. Yesenin
- When you love, you want to do something in the name of love. I want to sacrifice myself. I want to serve. Ernst Miller Hemingway
- Life is not a reward for the vanquished. Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov
- Anyone can write a three-volume novel. All that is needed for this is to have absolutely no knowledge of either life or literature. Oscar Wilde
- He who does not burn smokes. This is the law. Long live the flame of life! Nikolai Alexandrovich Ostrovsky
- Evil cannot be defeated, because the fight against evil is life itself. Alexandre Dumas
- Literature serves as a representative of the mental life of the people. N. A. Nekrasov
- Life is ten percent what you do in it, and ninety percent how you receive it. Somerset Maugham
- Wisdom is a set of truths obtained by the mind, observation and experience and applied to life - it is the harmony of ideas with life. I. A. Goncharov
- Life is a strange thing. Jack London
- Science is the most important, the most beautiful and necessary in a person’s life, it has always been and will be the highest manifestation of love, only with it alone will a person conquer nature and himself. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- If not further growth, which means sunset is close. Seneca
- You can't love all women, but you have to strive for it. Jorge Amadou
- Human souls, like rivers and plants, also need rain. Special rain - hope, faith and the meaning of life. If there is no rain, everything in the soul dies. Paulo Coelho
- Misfortune softens a person; His nature then becomes more sensitive and accessible to the understanding of objects that surpass the concept of a person in an ordinary and everyday situation. Nikolai Gogol
- Really polite person always full of love. He loves the person he wants to know in order to save him. Max Frisch
- Leave three men together after dinner, and you can be sure that the conversation will turn to women and that the older one will start it. Alexander Dumas son
- They say that it is good to die while saving the life of another. D. Boccaccio
- The first and undoubted duty of a person is to participate in the struggle with nature for his life and the lives of other people. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- Without work there cannot be a pure and joyful life. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- The only happiness in life is constant striving forward. Emile Zola
- Whether life events are good or bad largely depends on how we perceive them. Michel Montaigne
- But what should I do if I probably know that the deepest egoism lies at the basis of all human virtues? And the more virtuous the deed, the more egoism there is. Love yourself - that's one rule I recognize. Life is a commercial transaction... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- The meaning of life is that it has its end. Franz Kafka
- Life is better lived in dreams than in reality. Marcel Proust
- That’s why youth is given to be ebullient, active, life-affirming. Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov
- Life has only the meaning that we give it. Thornton Wilder
- Life is not a melting candle for me. It is something like a wonderful torch that fell into my hands for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before passing it on to the next generation. H.G. Wells
- The soul is born old and gradually becomes younger. This is the comedic side of life. The body is born young and gradually ages. And this is the tragic side. Oscar Wilde
- Very small degree hope is enough to bring love to life. After two or three days, hope may disappear; nevertheless, love has already been born. Frederic Stendhal
- You won't learn to skate if you're afraid to be funny. The ice of life is slippery. George Bernard Shaw
- Our life is one wandering shadow, a pathetic actor who swaggers on stage for an hour, and then disappears without a trace; a tale told by a madman, full of sounds and rage and making no sense. William Shakespeare
- There is a special breed of people who specifically make fun of every phenomenon in life. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- True love in itself feels so much holiness, innocence, strength, enterprise and independence that for it there is no crime, no obstacles, or the whole prosaic side of life. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- Life creates order, but order does not create life. Saint-Exupery A.
- We care most about life as it loses its value; old people regret it more than young people. Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Other people climb up to high position in life, like chimney sweeps, crawling through dark, suffocating and dirty canals and becoming completely covered with soot and soot. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- It is customary for everyone to live and burn, But then you will only immortalize life, When you draw a path for it to light and greatness with Your sacrifice. Boris Pasternak
- Life is ten percent what you do in it, and ninety percent how you receive it. William Somerset Maugham
You should write either about what you know very well, or about what no one knows.
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Poems are successful if they are created with spiritual clarity.
Ovid
A beautiful verse is like a bow drawn through the sonorous fibers of our being. The poet makes our thoughts sing within us, not our own. By telling us about the woman he loves, he delightfully awakens in our souls our love and our sorrow. He's a magician. By understanding him, we become poets like him.
Anatole France
Philosophy is not poetry, but poetry in its own way highest manifestation- philosophy.
Ilya Shevelev
Poetry is the only thing that makes me purer and more courageous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true poet dreams in reality, but it is not the object of his dreams that controls him, but he, the object of his dreams.
Charles Lamb
The source of poetry is beauty.
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Poetry has one amazing property. She returns the word to its original, virgin freshness. The most erased, completely “spoken” words by us, which have completely lost their figurative qualities for us, living only as a verbal shell, begin to sparkle, ring, and smell fragrant in poetry!
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
Our sacred craft has existed for thousands of years... With it, even without light, the world is bright. But no poet has yet said that there is no wisdom, and there is no old age, and maybe there is no death.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
A poet is a philosopher of the concrete and a painter of the abstract.
Victor Hugo
Those who write darkly either unwittingly betray their ignorance or deliberately hide it. They write vaguely about what they vaguely imagine.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Young poets pour a lot of water into their ink.
Johann Goethe
For many people, writing poetry is a growing pain of the mind.
Georg Lichtenberg
Poetry is like painting: some works will captivate you more if you look at them closely, and others if you move further away.
Horace
Poetry is not only in verses: it is poured out everywhere, it is all around us. Look at these trees, at this sky - beauty and life emanate from everywhere, and where there is beauty and life, there is poetry.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Not everyone who can write poetry is a poet.
Ben Jonson
The historian and the poet differ from each other not in speech - rhymed or unrhymed; They are distinguished by the fact that one speaks about what happened, the other about what could have happened. Therefore, poetry is more philosophical and serious than history, for it shows the general, while history shows only the individual.
Aristotle
Analysis is not the poet's business. Its calling is to reproduce, not to dismember.
Thomas Macaulay
Not the poet who knows how to weave rhymes.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
Poetry is a play of feelings into which reason introduces a system; eloquence is a matter of reason, which is enlivened by feeling.
Immanuel Kant
A poetic perception of life and everything around us is the greatest gift we have inherited from childhood. If a person does not lose this gift over many sober years, then he is a poet or writer
