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.”

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl.”

“Death often is the point of life's joke.”

“The square root of I is I.”

“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.”

“Light in comparison with darkness is a void.”

“Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.”

“WINTER'S GHOST:”

“The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.”

“And when the dawn comes creeping in,”

“The season was waning fast”

“My Muse sits forlorn”