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Quotes from A Conversation with the Inspector of Taxes about Poetry — Vladimir Mayakovsky

1893–1930 Russia

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A rhyme's
…
a barrel of dynamite.
A line is a fuse
that's lit.
The line smoulders,
the rhyme explodes –
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.

A Conversation with the Inspector of Taxes about Poetry (1926)

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