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

“One acts foolishly in order to write wisely – non è vero?”
― Ella d'Arcy

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

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