Медный всадник - The Bronze Horseman Quotes

“He knew this place, where once in sport/The flood had played and waves had bubbled,/Defiant in their fierce despair;/He knew these lions, and this square,/And him whose bronze head dominated/The darkness from its lofty height –/Whose fateful head will had on this site/Decreed a city be created.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Медный всадник - The Bronze Horseman

“But
Was this a dream in which he sought her? -
Is all our life, devoid of sense,
A dream: Fate's jest at Man's expense?”
― Alexander Pushkin, Медный всадник - The Bronze Horseman