Alexander Blok Quotes

1880–1921 Russia

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (November 28, 1880 NS – August 7, 1921) was a Russian poet and dramatist, generally considered to be the greatest of the Russian Symbolists.

Russia
Playwrights
Poets

Random Alexander Blok quote

5 quotes

Hell and damnation,
life is such fun
with a ragged greatcoat
and a Jerry gun!

The Twelve (1918)

What message, years of conflagration,
have you: madness or hope? On thin
cheeks strained by war and liberation
bloody reflections still remain.

Those Born in Years of Stagnation (1914)

Grip your gun like a man, brother!
Let's have a crack at Holy Russia,
Mother
Russia
with her big, fat arse!
Freedom, freedom! Down with the cross!

The Twelve (1918)

O, my Russia! O, wife! The long road is clear to us to the point of pain. Our road – like a Tatar arrow of ancient will has pierced our breast.

On Kulikovo Field (1908)

My spirit is old; and some black lot awaits me
On my long road.
Some dream accurst, inveterate, suffocates me
Still with its load.
So young – yet hosts of dreadful thoughts appal me,
Sick and opprest.
Come! and from shadowy phantoms disenthral me,
Friend.

My Spirit is Old (1899)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Blok (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.