Is it true that Vysotsky is the author of the quote “Even if you are right a thousand times, what is a matter if your woman is crying”?

For many years, the phrase attributed to the Soviet artist and poet on the network. We checked the correctness of such an attribution.

Publications containing this statement signed by Vladimir Vysotsky in different years appeared V Facebook And Instagramon ""Picabu"And other resources. Quote even became the basis for similar phrases, but with other ending.

"Verified" did not find quotes similar to the considered, in various meetings works Vysotsky, in the poet’s publications available on the service "Google Books", In many literary studies publications About the poet. Moreover, the authors of many memories And biographies They describe Vysotsky as rather tough in some issues of a person who was negative about weakness. In this sense, the viral quote is not quite combined with its image.

Analysis of social networks shows that the quote has begun attribute Vysotsky in mid -2013, and with such an attribution, she quickly dispersed on the Internet. However, even before that, for some time, the phrase spread without indicating authorship - for example, in January of the same year it was laid out on the site "Pearls of thought".

It is worth it publication From February 10, 2013 on the portal "Poems.ru" - there the quote is included in the poem of the poet Kirill Tabishev:

You will meet her once. How the sea meets the tributary
Like the one who was blind from birth and became sighted.
You can be endlessly right, but what is the use of
If your woman cries?

In Internet Archive Saved Another identical publication of the same author, posted on the same site on August 22, 2011, but subsequently remote. It is significantly ahead of the time of appearance on the network all other cases.

“Verified” contacted Tabishev, and he confirmed that this is a quote from his old poem, which later began to be attributed to Vysotsky, Bernard Show, Omar Hayaimu, Paulo Coelho and other people. According to Tabishev, he involuntarily became the conductor of this quote in the "world of naive literature for girls", and the phrase itself - "the motto of the henpecks." However, Tabishev adds, now he is not interested, because he moved away from poetry.

This is far from the only case when alien morale of other people's morals or quasifilosophical generalizations are attributed to Vysotsky-researcher Artyom Kabankov by 2017 discovered more than 20 similar examples. According to his assessment, such statements contribute to the assertion and strengthening of a media myth about the poet and turn out to be “consonant with the ethical and aesthetic criteria of the reader, which is extremely idealizing the image of Vysotsky, who perceives him as a popularly beloved poet and a moral imperative.”

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Incorrect attribution of quote

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