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Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries.
— Philip Pullman
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
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
— Dean Koontz
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
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
Sometimes it's hell getting to heaven
— The Undertaker
The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.
— Osip Mandelstam
I carry Sorrow, a grey
bird, sluggish, in my chest. — Osip Mandelstam
bird, sluggish, in my chest. — Osip Mandelstam
I envy everyone secretly,
I secretly love everything. — Osip Mandelstam
I secretly love everything. — Osip Mandelstam
I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.
— Charles Bukowski
The earth is buzzing with metaphor
— Osip Mandelstam
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
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
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
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