Poetry Quote by Vladimir Nabokov — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The square root of I is I.”

“A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.”

“Light in comparison with darkness is a void.”

“You have to be an artist and a madman...”

“The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.”

“We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.”

“Someday you will name me,”

“I don't want perfect I want something real. Something that makes me feel.”

“To see the Summer Sky”

“Forbidden things— my God, I’m drawn to them like a moth to a flame.”

“And if the world has ceased to hear you,”

“TO what purpose, April, do you return again?”