Alexander Blok Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Alexander Blok
The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake water
A woman's shriek assaults the ear
While above, in the sky, inured to everything,
The moon looks on with a mindless leer
("The Unknown Lady") — Alexander Blok
Beauty is frightening," they will tell you -
Lazily you will arrange
A Spanish shawl on your shoulders,
A red rose in your hair.
"Beauty is simple," they will tell you -
Clumsily with a motley shawl
You will cover a child up,
A red rose on the floor.
But, distractedly heeding
All the words sounding around you,
Sadly lost in thought
You will say about yourself:
'I am neither frightening nor simple;
I am not so frightening, that I would simply
Kill; I am not so simple
That I do not know how frightening life is.'
("For Anna Akhmatova") — Alexander Blok
stars, Where did such anguish come from?" And the stars tell him, The stars tell him everything. — Alexander Blok
From sunset she appeared,
Her cloak pierced by a bloom
Of unfamiliar climes.
She summoned me somewhere
Into the northern gloom
And aimless winter ice.
And bonfire burned 'mid night,
And with its tongues the blaze
Did lick the very skies.
The eyes flashed fiery light,
And falling as black snakes
The tresses were released.
And then the snakes encircled
My mind and lofty spirit
Lay spread upon the cross.
And in the snowdust's swirl
To black eyes I am true,
To beauty of the coils.
(untitled: "From sunset she appeared") — Alexander Blok
The sinking of the Titanic has made me indescribably happy; there is, after all, an ocean. — Alexander Blok
When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat. — Alexander Blok
The brain is not an organ to be relied upon. — Alexander Blok
What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain. — Alexander Blok
The bourgeois stands like a question mark,
Speechless, like the hungry cur,
The ancient world stands there behind him,
A mongrel dog, afraid to stir. — Alexander Blok
Poor land, poor land, what do you mean
to the heart that moves in me?
Poor love, poor love, poor wife of mine,
why do you weep so bitterly?
(from Retribution book 2, I) — Alexander Blok
Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! — Alexander Blok
The mirror's light sparks in the eyes,
And horrified, my lids drawn tight,
I step back to that realm of night
Where not a single exit lies...
(Untitled: "I pass away this life of mine...") — Alexander Blok
With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution ... This is the music everyone who has ears should hear. — Alexander Blok
How often we sit weeping - you
and I - over the life we lead!
My friends, if you only knew
the darknes of the days ahead! — Alexander Blok
Inside my soul a treasure is buried.
The key is mine and only mine.
How right you are, you drunken monster!
I know: the truth is in the wine.
("The Unknown Lady") — Alexander Blok
I once stirred thunder in the skies, And now, unlike the days of yore - Just tears in a drunken poet's eyes And laughter - from some whore. — Alexander Blok