Sergei Yesenin

Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin (3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1895 – 28 December 1925) was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century.

Quotes

• Goodbye, my friend, without a word or hand shake,
  Don't be sad, and do not muse
  In this life to die is nothing novel,
  But to live, of course, is hardly greater news.
  • As quoted in Concerning Suicide in Soviet Russia, Jacques Choron, December 1968, Bulletin of Suicidology

• I feel very sad now, for we are going through such a period in [our] history when human individuality is being destroyed, and the approaching socialism is totally different from the one I was dreaming of.
  • About the October Revolution. From a letter, August 1920, as quoted in

• Так мало пройдено дорог,
  Так много сделано ошибок.
  • The roads that have been walked are few,
    Mistakes that have been made are many.
  • «Мне грустно на тебя смотреть» (1923), translated by Alec S. Vagapov, "Yesenin: Collection of Poems", Samizdat (posted 4 Nov. 2006, modified 14 July 2008)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Sergei Yesenin on Wikipedia