Frases de Alexandre S. Pushkin

„Amar? Para quê? Por um tempo, não vale a pena.
E, para sempre, é impossível.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„O céu deu-nos o hábito, bom substituto da felicidade.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„A ilusão que nos exalta é mais querida a nós que dez mil verdades.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„Nunca Encontrareis a poesia se não a tiverdes dentro de vós.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

Fonte: http://www.caras.uol.com.br - 5 de novembro de 2009 - EDIÇÃO 835 - Citações http://caras.uol.com.br/citacoes/edicoes/835/nunca-encontrareis-a-poesia-se-nao-a-tiverdes-dentro-de-vos/

„Perder a razão é uma coisa terrível. Antes morrer. A um morto consideramos com respeito, rezamos por ele. A morte fá-lo igual a todos. Enquanto um homem privado da sua razão deixou de ser homem.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

Fonte: "Russalka"

„A palavra de um poeta é a essência do seu ser.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„Gosto mais do engano que nos eleva
do que das verdades obscuras e baixas.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„A subtileza ainda não é inteligência. Às vezes os tolos e os loucos também são extraordinariamente subtis.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„Todos dizem: 'Não há justiça na terra.' Mas também não há justiça lá no alto!“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„O respeito pelo passado, eis o traço que distingue a instrução da barbárie; as tribos nômades não possuem nem história, nem nobreza.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

Variante: O respeito pelo passado - eis o traço que distingue a instrução da barbárie; as tribos nómadas não possuem nem história, nem nobreza.

„A man who's active and incisive
can yet keep nail-care much in mind:
why fight what's known to be decisive?
custom is despot of mankind.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, livro Eugene Onegin

Fonte: Eugene Onegin (1823), Ch. 1, st. 25.

„And thus He mused: "From here, indeed
Shall we strike terror in the Swede?
And here a city by our labor
Founded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;
"Here cut" - so Nature gives command -
Your window through on Europe; stand
Firm-footed by the sea, unchanging!“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman (1833).

„But, as it is, this pied collection
begs your indulgence — it's been spun
from threads both sad and humoristic,
themes popular or idealistic,
products of carefree hours, of fun,
of sleeplessness, faint inspirations,
of powers unripe, or on the wane,
of reason's icy intimations,
and records of a heart in pain.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, livro Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin (1823)
Original: (ru) Но так и быть — рукой пристрастной Прими собранье пестрых глав, Полусмешных, полупечальных, Простонародных, идеальных, Небрежный плод моих забав, Бессониц, легких вдохновений, Незрелых и увядших лет, Ума холодных наблюдений И сердца горестных замет.

„Pimen [writing in front of a sacred lamp]:
One more, the final record, and my annals
Are ended, and fulfilled the duty laid
By God on me a sinner. Not in vain
Hath God appointed me for many years
A witness, teaching me the art of letters;
A day will come when some laborious monk
Will bring to light my zealous, nameless toil,
Kindle, as I, his lamp, and from the parchment
Shaking the dust of ages will transcribe
My true narrations.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, Boris Godunov

(Variant translation):
One more story, just one more,
And then my history's completed,
All my chronicles written down
And my sinner's debt repaid to God.
Not for nothing.
The Lord appointed me to bear witness
For many many years and it was he
Taught me the art of creating books.
One day, in the far future,
some hard-working monk
Will find my painstaking,
anonymous writings.
He'll light his lamp,
as I light mine,
He'lll shake the dust of centuries from these scrolls.
Then he'll copy out, carefully, these true accounts,
So the descendants of today's Christians
May know the past of their native land
Remember their mighty Tsars warmly
For their glory and their knidness
And our Lord's mercy on their sins and crimes.
In my old age I live my life anew.
Pushkin, Alexander (2012). Pushkin's Boris Gudunov. Oberon Books.
Boris Godunov (1825)

„Tis time, my friend, ‘tis time!
For rest the heart is aching;
Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking
Fragments of being, while together you and I
Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin

Tis Time, My Friend, l. 1-5 (1834).

„The less we show our love to a woman,
Or please her less, and neglect our duty,
The more we trap and ruin her surely
In the flattering toils of philandery.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, livro Eugene Onegin

Fonte: Eugene Onegin (1823), Ch. 4, st. 1.

„Unforced, as conversation passed,
he had the talent of saluting
felicitously every theme,
of listening like a judge-supreme
while serious topics were disputing,
or, with an epigram-surprise,
of kindling smiles in ladies' eyes.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, livro Eugene Onegin

Fonte: Eugene Onegin (1823), Ch. 1, st. 5.

„Tormented by spiritual thirst,
I dragged myself through a somber desert.
And a six-winged seraph
Appeared to meet me at the crossing of the ways.
He touched my eyes
With fingers as light as a dream:
And my prophetic eyes opened
Like those of a frightened eagle.
He touched my ears
And they were filled with noise and ringing:
And I heard the shuddering of the heavens,
And the flight of the angels in the heights,
And the movement of the beasts of the sea under the waters,
And the sound of the vine growing in the valley.
He bent down to my mouth
And tore out my tongue,
Sinful, decitful, and given to idle talk;
with the right hand steeped in blood
He inserted the tongue of a wise serpent,
Into my benumbed mouth.
He clove my breast with a sword,
And plucked out my quivering heart,
And thrust a coal of live fire
Into my gaping breast.
Like a corpse I lay in the desert.
And the voice of God called out to me:
'Arise, O prophet, see and hear,
Be filled with my will,
Go forth over land and sea,
And set the hearts of men on fire with your Word.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, The Prophet

English translation found in New Society, Volume 8, (1966). New Society Limited. p. 413.
Also quoted by Kahn, Andrew (2006). The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin. Cambridge University Press, p. 84.
The Prophet (1826)

„God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin

Found in Pushkin's. The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories. English edition by Random House LLC. 2013. p. 139
As quoted by Joseph Frank in Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time (2009). Princeton University Press, p. 203.