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I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity. — Nadezhda Mandelstam

I am wearied to death with life.
There's nothing it has that I want,
but I celebrate my naked earth,
there's no other world to descant. — Osip Mandelstam

The only good life is one in which there is no need for miracles. — Nadezhda Mandelstam

I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges. — Osip Mandelstam

The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders,
But I am no wolf by blood. — Osip Mandelstam

For us, all that's left is kisses
tattered as the little bees
that die when they leave the hive. — Osip Mandelstam

my subconscious so full it must spill over — Dorothy Hewett

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. — Helen Dunmore

Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed. — Osip Mandelstam

I love my poor earth because I have seen no other. — Osip Mandelstam

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. — Michel De Montaigne

Everyone knows one story, I thought. Everyone knows at least one. — Patrick Rothfuss

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war. — Raul Castro

The earth is buzzing with metaphor — Osip Mandelstam

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage. — Ming-Dao Deng

Evolution has weaved the fabric of life into a blanket of many colours. — Matt Egner

I envy everyone secretly,
I secretly love everything. — Osip Mandelstam

I carry Sorrow, a grey
bird, sluggish, in my chest. — Osip Mandelstam

Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun. — Richard Dawkins

Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips. — Osip Mandelstam

Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain. — Christian Wiman

My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day. — John Molson

Everyday is an atheist holiday. — Penn Jillette

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. — Osip Mandelstam

The people need poetry that will be their own secret
To keep them awake forever,
And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing. — Osip Mandelstam

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface. — Osip Mandelstam

Everything is moved by love. — Osip Mandelstam

You grew up on me, Aly, he murmured, the words rough, almost in awe. — A.L. Jackson

The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled words, the layers of air in the semi-vowels. — Osip Mandelstam

Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives? — Douglas Coupland

A raznochinets needs no memory - it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. — Osip Mandelstam

Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills. — Eleanor Smeal

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of. — Christian Wiman

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors. — Osip Mandelstam

Only in Russia poetry is respected
it gets people killed. — Osip Mandelstam

I want you now so awfully, No longer jealous-green, I bring myself as offering Up to the guillotine. — Osip Mandelstam