Andrew Speedy Quotes

Envy is an insult to oneself.

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

A poet`s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

No, Stalin did not die. He thinks that death can be fixed. We removed him from the mausoleum. But how do we remove Stalin from Stalin`s heirs?

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.