What did Vladimir Nabokov mean by: My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French. - Vladimir Nabokov Writer · Russia Copy
+ I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vladimir Nabokov, Shadow, 0 - Vladimir Nabokov Writer · Russia
+ A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vladimir Nabokov, Art, Writing, 0 - Vladimir Nabokov Writer · Russia
+ do what only a true artist can do … pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vladimir Nabokov, Artist, Butterfly, Forgotten, 0 - Vladimir Nabokov Writer · Russia
+ And the rest is rust and stardust. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 29, 2023, Vladimir Nabokov, Loss, Love, 0 - Vladimir Nabokov Writer · Russia
+ My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vladimir Nabokov, Music, Simple, Stupid, 0 - Vladimir Nabokov Writer · Russia
+ a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vladimir Nabokov, Capacity, Poet, 0 - Vladimir Nabokov Writer · Russia
+ There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vladimir Nabokov, Airplane, Aphorism, 0 - Vladimir Nabokov Writer · Russia
+ Memory overshadows the present and dims the future “into something thicker than its usual pea soup.” Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Vladimir Nabokov, Memories, Soup, Usual, 0 - Vladimir Nabokov Writer · Russia
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
