Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)
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The poet who tried to marry avant-garde fury with Bolshevik faith — and found the Soviet state a colder audience than he'd hoped. Mayakovsky roared through Russian Futurism, wrote agitprop for Lenin, then watched censors turn on his satires before he pulled the trigger in 1930.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was born 19 July 1893 and rose in pre-Revolution Russia as a leading voice of Futurism, co-signing the manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste in 1913 and writing poems like A Cloud in Trousers (1915) and Backbone Flute (1916). After 1917 he threw himself into the Bolshevik cause: he directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and made agitprop posters during the Civil War, his work shot through with admiration for Lenin. But the Soviet state he championed began to chafe — his satirical poem "Talking With the Taxman About Poetry" (1926)…
Sourced, dated quotes from Vladimir Mayakovsky
Agitprop sticks in my teeth too,and I'd rather compose romances for you –more profit in it and more charm. But I subdued myself, setting my heelon the throat of my own song.
In parade deploying the armies of my pages, I shall inspect the regiments in line. Heavy as lead, my verses at attention stand,ready for death and for immortal fame.
Love for us is no paradise of arbors —to us love tells us, humming, that the stalled motor of the hearthas started to work again.
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.
I want to be understood by my country,but if I fail to be understood –what then?,I shall pass through my native landto one side,like a showerof slanting rain.
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