Alexander Pushkin quotes – Art Quotes

Alexander Pushkin – From the Dreams category:

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all. (Alexander Pushkin)

Alexander Pushkin – From the Fire category:

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason. (Alexander Pushkin)

Alexander Pushkin – From the Humanity category:

Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization. (Alexander Pushkin)

Alexander Pushkin – From the Humility category:

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool. (Alexander Pushkin)

Alexander Pushkin – From the Illusion category:

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths. (Alexander Pushkin)

Alexander Pushkin – From the Inspiration category:

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry. (Alexander Pushkin)

Alexander Pushkin – From the Language category:

I want to understand you; I study your obscure language. (Alexander Pushkin)

Alexander Pushkin – From the Obsession category:

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse. (Alexander Pushkin)

Alexander Pushkin – From the Vision category:

Then came a moment of renaissance, / I looked up – you again are there, / A fleeting vision, the quintessence / Of all that’s beautiful and rare. (Alexander Pushkin)

Alexander Pushkin – From the Writing category:

Write for pleasure and publish for money. (Alexander Pushkin)