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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
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
... Her lips an island in the sudden white sea of pain that came in a shining, unbearable, rising, blinding wave and swept him clean.
— Ernest Hemingway,
It was perhaps, the devil's oldest precept, that sin could always be trusted to reveal what was most human in a person as often for good as for ill.
— Joe Hill
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
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
tattered as the little bees
that die when they leave the hive. — Osip Mandelstam
my subconscious so full it must spill over
— Dorothy Hewett
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
I envy everyone secretly,
I secretly love everything. — Osip Mandelstam
I secretly love everything. — Osip Mandelstam
I carry Sorrow, a grey
bird, sluggish, in my chest. — Osip Mandelstam
bird, sluggish, in my chest. — Osip Mandelstam
Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.
— Osip Mandelstam
The earth is buzzing with metaphor
— Osip Mandelstam
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.
— Osip Mandelstam
A smile is a flower of a loving and caring heart. Smile with love.
— Debasish Mridha
Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.
— Christian Wiman
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
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
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
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
— William Cobbett
Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.
— Paula Heath
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
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
it gets people killed. — Osip Mandelstam