Yuri Sharon

“Destroy your manuscript, but save whatever you have inscribed in the margin out of boredom, out of helplessness, and, as it were, in a dream. (The Egyptian Stamp)”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Noise of Time: Selected Prose

“Books have always had their roots in other books, and they still do.”
― Dubravka Ugrešić, Lend Me Your Character

“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.”
― Brendan Behan

“Any decent poet can use words to stop
the bleeding.”
― Serhiy Zhadan, Месопотамія