Chlebnikov poetry is a tribute to freedom, literature is a tribute to freedom and human fluorishing. Being the author a crazy poet, an american suicidal writer or an ancient scottish ballad singer. Let's remember it, now that we all westerners think that the russian culture is all oppression and dictatorship.
For me it’s much more pleasant
To look at the stars
Than to sing up a prisoner
To a death sentence.
For me it’s much more pleasant
To listen to the voices of flowers,
Whispering: «It’s he»
Bending their heads,
As I walk through the garden —
Than to see the black rifles
Of the guard
Killing those who want
To kill me.
That’s why I will never,
No, never, become the Governor!