5 Quotes & Sayings By Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, full name Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Владимир Владимирович Маяковский), was a Russian poet and playwright. He is considered one of the best Russian artists of the 20th century. Mayakovsky has been called the most important and influential avant-garde poet and the most influential and controversial literary figure of the Russian Futurism movement.

Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone...
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Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent! Vladimir Mayakovsky
On I’ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On...
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On I’ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On whatfeverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot — I, so bigand by no one needed? Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song — if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say . Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Have you seena dog lick the hand that thrashed it?! Vladimir Mayakovsky