Alexander Pushkin Quotations

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? custom is despot of mankind.

To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.

Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking Fragments of being, while together you and I Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane...

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.