Be equal to your talent, not your age.
At times let the gap between them be embarrassing."

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.

"Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht."

But what if it doesn't work ... ?
and they jammed sticks
In the wheels of the first locomotive
To make sure it wouldn't work.

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