Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Velimir Khlebnikov

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian poet Velimir Khlebnikov.

Last updated on April 20, 2025.

Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov was a Russian poet and playwright, a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch far beyond it. Influential linguist Roman Jakobson hailed Khlebnikov as "the greatest world poet of our century".

Russian - Poet | November 9, 1885 - June 28, 1922

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A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.

Velimir Khlebnikov

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

Velimir Khlebnikov

Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Velimir Khlebnikov

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