The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers’ homes.
- If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!
- The love boat has crashed against the everyday.
- 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!
- I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood – what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.
- Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?
- I understand the power and the alarm of words – Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.
- To us love says humming that the heart’s stalled motor has begun working again.
- If you like I’ll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I’ll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but – a cloud in trousers.
- In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a pioneering Russian poet, playwright, and actor, renowned for his revolutionary spirit and innovative use of language. Born in Baghdati, Georgia, Mayakovsky moved to Moscow in 1906, where he became involved with the Russian Futurist movement.
His work is characterized by its bold, provocative style and its passionate advocacy for social change. Mayakovsky’s poetry often addressed themes of love, politics, and urban life, exemplified in works such as “A Cloud in Trousers” and “The Backbone Flute.”
A fervent supporter of the Bolshevik Revolution, Mayakovsky used his art to promote socialist ideals, contributing to propaganda posters and films. Despite his early success, he struggled with personal and professional dissatisfaction. His unfulfilled love for Lilya Brik, a prominent muse, influenced much of his work. Tragically, Mayakovsky’s life ended in suicide at the age of 36, leaving behind a legacy of profound impact on Russian literature and art.
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