Russian Poets

Famous quotes containing the words russian and/or poets:

    “To be born in a new country one has to die in the motherland.”
    —Irina Mogilevskaya, Russian student. “Immigrating to the U.S.,” student paper in an English as a Second Language class, Hunter College, 1995.

    “Truly men hate the truth; they’d liefer
    Meet a tiger on the road.
    Therefore the poets honey their truth with lying; but religion-
    Vendors and political men
    Pour from the barrel, new lies on the old,”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)