Collected Poems Quotes

“She comes when classes are to start,
She gathers up last midnight’s clutter –
burnt cigarettes, a rusted pen nib”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Collected Poems

“my soul’s ready
to relish everything beneath the moon,
the ancient and the new.
But I am in disaccord with the moon’s glow,
I try to avoid melancholy …
Oh keep me, Lord, from being a poet,
the earthly foolishly to miss!”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Collected Poems

“Two words, a superficial joke,
the splendour of those sombre eyes.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Collected Poems

“She flirted and procrastinated,
toyed superficially with love,
but in her heart awaited more.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Collected Poems

“Alone, unknown, unloved, I die...and the room had grown a ghostly thorax, with a heart unknown, unloved - but not alone”
― Vladimir Nabokov, [Collected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)] [By: Nabokov, V.] [August, 2013]