David Samoilov (pen name; real surname Kaufman David Samuilovich; June 1, 1920, Moscow — February 23, 1990, Tallinn) was a Soviet poet and prose writer.
“By what bodily intertwining of vessels and nerves are we, poets, bound to our biographies—how we must be able to live in order to be able to write!”—David Samoilov said, who kept diaries for practically his entire conscious life. This is the search for oneself and finding oneself in a grand world; it is the search, discovery, and acceptance of the world. And always—an investigation. And a judgment. And hope for a response, for fruitful shared overcoming of life’s loneliness.