But I, Vladimir Mayakovsky More Quotes by Vladimir Mayakovsky More Quotes From Vladimir Mayakovsky 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 homemuseumsart Our planet Vladimir Mayakovsky delightthis-lifelife-is If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers! Vladimir Mayakovsky wishcloudsmen In the church of my heart the choir is on fire Vladimir Mayakovsky churchfireheart 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 painstarshurt On the pavement Vladimir Mayakovsky pavementrudesoul 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 starsmeanneeds 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 landraincountry The love boat has crashed against the everyday. Vladimir Mayakovsky boateverydaylove 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 linestownssky 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 Vladimir Mayakovsky heartsongbook 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 soulplaytwo 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 painstupidhurt 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 lightdarkhair 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 sunsetcloudsmen To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again. Vladimir Mayakovsky hummingmotorheart 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. Vladimir Mayakovsky horsepassioneye Were I Vladimir Mayakovsky roaringskyhands 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 coffinsalarmstheatre 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 voicesoulhair
