Soviet Climbers

Famous quotes containing the words soviet and/or climbers:

“The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“The view is fine from fifty,
Experienced climbers say....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)