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

“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.”

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”

“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.”

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

“while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space,”

“All religions are based on obsolete terminology.”

“Follow, poet, follow right”

“See”

“I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.”

“Hair tangled with the wind”

“Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)”

“In this quiet place on a quiet street”