On Desire

Don’t take me too seriously, please, when I’m acting like a very influential person. If I should say that nobody reads me I would lie, but if I should say that all those who read me support my views, I would lie twice. So my powerful detractors can keep sleeping peacefully: I am the most unimportant person of the world. And then sincerely, I’ve had enough of seeing good people overwhelmed by ugly guys. So I have only a desire, that you join the Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna”’s dance classes. It seems just a small thing, but not so small as you would think.

Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya before a performance
Photo © Sputnik/Alexander Makarov