Book: The poet

Western man is closer to a police mindset than the Russian people. That is why Russian society needs more police and more it produces.
But that's why the police are bad at it. No gift of thinking of the police, and the police does not feel the boundaries of the law of violence.

One of the elusive and at the same time an accurate indication of genius is the feeling: is it really live? The closest example - Osip Mandelstam. Was it really? For this reason, genius is rarely recognized during the life of a genius. Prevents that he is alive. Even if we ignore the ignorance and envy, it remains a deep, albeit unconsciously argument: alive and singing heavenly songs. What, he was there, or what? How he knows them? So, the songs just seem like Paradise. After death it is easier to recognize: as a part of there is singing.

This man is his tragedy with such delicate courage that nobody noticed this courage. All agreed that he is a cold person.

You need the movement, the continual friction of the world to smoke, spark ideas, and then need silence and solitude in order to blow on the spark.

We know the two stories of humankind - of ancient and Christian. Ancient history was of great cultural achievements, but, failing to create the harmonic world collapsed. Christian history has created a Grand culture and civilization, but failing to create the harmonic world, apparently, is approaching its end. According to the laws of mysticism and sports, I am sure - will the third attempt the history of mankind. But it will be the last attempt. If humanity and this time will not be able to create a harmonious world, I'm afraid it will be forever disqualified.

The more stupid a person is, the longer he is on the phone: neissyakaemoi missing information.

The main symptom of provincialism in literature - the desire to be fashionable.

In Anglo-Saxon literature a lot of works where the characters compete in generosity. For example, "East and West" Kipling. In our literature, something I can not remember these heroes. We have a great, noble heroes, but they are not competing with anyone in the nobility, they are always alone.
Maybe the fact that in our history there was no chivalry? Itching to write a poem about the competition two people in the nobility. But I can't find the story.

A free man is a man, sensitive to the freedom of another and therefore a relaxed self-limiting. This relaxed self-restraint is the substance of freedom. To understand freedom as a thing for his own use - that is to say: "I'm a generous man. I've treated yourself".

Drunk stuck in a cage with a monkey stick and poked it. The monkey shrieked.
- I wonder what she mean by that? - surprised drunk.
She wanted to say that a person is not descended from monkeys, ' I explained.
- It will happen, where you will get happens - brilliantly comforted drunk.

He was so distracted that he didn't notice how his wife left him. After a few days, on hearing this, the wife of the pride returned.

Arrogance is the inferiority complex in the strength of his position. Through the arrogance of a man convinced of the reality of his stature or beliefs about yourself.

All the whores in old age are hypocrites. What's the matter? Greed. Already unable to eat body tries as much as possible otozhrat from virtue.

Tsvetaeva brilliant said that Pushkin married Natalia Nikolaevna - it is the desire of fullness to emptiness. But you can continue her thought. Pushkin surprisingly friends often liked to chat with empty people. Electricity its overcrowding required the ground, otherwise he would explode. Friends did not understand. Most likely, and Pushkin himself did not understand.