“If our enemies take me And people stop talking to me, If they confiscate the whole world— The right to breathe, open doors, Affirm that existence shall go on And that people, like a judge, shall judge, And if they… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
“Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished.” — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
“Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
“The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders, But I am no wolf by blood.” — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
“Life is one in all its manifestations. You must experience everything, be capable of everything, and rejoice in everything.” — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
“I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have not lost… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity,… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?” — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
“We have come to love the music of proof. Logical connection for us is not some popular song about a finch, but a choral… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges. — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“What tense would you choose to live in? I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle – in the ‘what… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
“I don't know how it is with others, but for me the charm of a woman increases if she is a young traveler, has… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
“One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continuity and tradition. Tradition cannot be contrived… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share
