Vladimir Mayakovsky's best-known lines (with the poem)
The top 3 according to 6 votes from people: Listen! / If stars are lit, / it means someone needs it? · The street writhes, tongueless: / it has nothing to shout or speak with. · In this life / dying / is not hard. / Making life / is much harder.. (Updated Jun 21, 2021.)
"Listen! If stars are lit…", "I pull out of my wide trousers" and "Always to shine, to shine everywhere": the lines by Vladimir Mayakovsky every Russian knows, from his early Futurist poems to "At the Top of My Voice", with title and year.
Automatically translated (original in Русский). See the original
Top 16
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Listen! / If stars are lit, / it means someone needs it?
Poem "Listen!", 1914.
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2
The street writhes, tongueless: / it has nothing to shout or speak with.
Long poem "A Cloud in Trousers", 1915.
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3
In this life / dying / is not hard. / Making life / is much harder.
Poem "To Sergei Yesenin", 1926.
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4
Listen, / comrades of posterity, / to an agitator, / a loudmouth ringleader.
Long poem "At the Top of My Voice", 1930.
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5
I am a poet. That is what makes me interesting.
Autobiography "I Myself", 1922.
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6
And could you / play a nocturne / on a drainpipe flute?
Poem "But could you?", 1913.
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7
You came in, / sharp as a "here, take it!"
Long poem "A Cloud in Trousers", 1915.
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8
Always to shine, / to shine everywhere, / to the very last of days, / to shine, and to hell with everything else! / That is my motto, / and the sun's!
Poem "An Extraordinary Adventure Which Befell Vladimir Mayakovsky in a Summer Cottage", 1920.
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9
Quiet, orators! / Yours / is the floor, / Comrade Mauser.
Poem "Left March", 1918.
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10
Like a wolf / I would gnaw out / bureaucracy.
Poem "Verses on the Soviet Passport", 1929.
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11
A little son / came to his father / and the tiny one asked: / "What is good / and what is bad?"
Poem "What Is Good and What Is Bad?", 1925.
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12
Poetry / is like mining radium. / A gram of output / for a year of work.
Poem "Conversation with a Tax Inspector about Poetry", 1926.
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13
I praise / the fatherland / that is, / but three times over / the one that will be.
Long poem "Good!", 1927.
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14
Even if I were an old Black man, / even then, / without gloom or laziness, / I would learn Russian / just because / Lenin spoke it.
Poem "To Our Youth", 1927.
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15
The love boat / has crashed against everyday life.
Unfinished poem, lines repeated in his suicide note, 1930.
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16
I pull out of my wide trousers / a duplicate / of priceless cargo. / Read it / and envy me: / I am / a citizen / of the Soviet Union.
Poem "Verses on the Soviet Passport", 1929.
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