"But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love."

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Source : Vladimir Mayakovsky (1975). “Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy”, p.36, Indiana University Press

Vladimir Mayakovsky

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“I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me.”
“I'm certainly not a trained singer. I'm just kind of following a feeling.”
“All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?”
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and orderâ€”willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
“What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.”
“A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.”

Source : "Manhattan suicide addict". Book by Yayoi Kusama, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2005.
“If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.”
“A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.”

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