If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason. Alexander Pushkin More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin More Quotes From Alexander Pushkin I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man. Alexander Pushkin gone-away pain men Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui. Alexander Pushkin good-friend ennui people Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth. Alexander Pushkin pieces glasses tea Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him. Alexander Pushkin unrequited-love love-is men Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather Alexander Pushkin magic mind weather To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring. Alexander Pushkin yield blessing spring I was not born to amuse the Tsars. Alexander Pushkin born I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change. Alexander Pushkin married wish Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul. Alexander Pushkin dancing dance soul Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous. Alexander Pushkin sacrifice winning play With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm. Alexander Pushkin charm easier In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he. Alexander Pushkin tyrants choices men Habit is Heaven's own redress: Alexander Pushkin redress habit heaven Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent. Alexander Pushkin two country years My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth? Alexander Pushkin sweetness youth dream Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away. Alexander Pushkin autumn meditation dream I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to. Alexander Pushkin old-woman moscow want Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world. Alexander Pushkin together two ideas 'Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die. Alexander Pushkin dust together heart I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind. Alexander Pushkin summer dream heart
