I want to be understood by my country,
but if I fail to be understood –
what then?,
I shall pass through my native land
to one side,
like a shower
of slanting rain.


"Back Home!", first version (1926); translation from Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975) p. 36

Vladimir Mayakovsky Quotes

I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood – what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower...

I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood – what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower...

I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood – what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower...

I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood – what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower...