--- title: "1 Shall Fall Quotes By Osip Mandelstam" description: "1 Shall Fall quotes by Osip Mandelstam. Plus more from Osip Mandelstam and more Shall Fall sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c4/osip-mandelstam-19304_darkness_if-our-enemies-take-me-and-people-stop-t_3101904.jpg" --- > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/if-our-enemies-take-me-and-people-stop-talking-to-me-if-they/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c4/osip-mandelstam-19304_darkness_if-our-enemies-take-me-and-people-stop-t_3101904.jpg) ## More by Osip Mandelstam > [“Everything is moved by love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/everything-is-moved-by-love/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/take-from-my-palms-to-soothe-your-heart-a-little-honey-a-little-sun/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [“Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/logic-is-the-kingdom-of-the-unexpected-to-think-logically-is-to-be/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/take-from-my-palms-to-soothe-your-heart-a-little-honey-a-little-sun-2/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [“The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders, But I am no wolf by blood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/the-wolfhound-century-leaps-at-my-shoulders-but-i-am-no-wolf-by-blood/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [“Life is one in all its manifestations. You must experience everything, be capable of everything, and rejoice in everything.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/life-is-one-in-all-its-manifestations-you-must-experience-everything/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/i-do-not-know-how-it-is-elsewhere-but-here-in-this-country-poetry-is/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/and-i-walk-out-of-space-into-an-overgrown-garden-of-values-and-tear/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/only-in-russia-poetry-is-respected-it-gets-people-killed-is-there/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [“We have come to love the music of proof. Logical connection for us is not some popular song about a finch, but a choral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/we-have-come-to-love-the-music-of-proof-logical-connection-for-us-is/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/i-was-stopped-in-the-dense-soviet-wood-by-bandits-who-called/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/where-to-start-everything-cracks-and-shakes-the-air-trembles-with/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [“What tense would you choose to live in? I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle – in the ‘what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/what-tense-would-you-choose-to-live-in-i-want-to-live-in-the/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/i-don-t-know-how-it-is-with-others-but-for-me-the-charm-of-a-woman/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) > [“One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continuity and tradition. Tradition cannot be contrived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osip-mandelstam/one-cannot-launch-a-new-history-the-idea-is-altogether-unthinkable/) [Osip Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osip-mandelstam/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shall-fall/osip-mandelstam/#itemlist", "name": "1 Shall Fall Quotes By Osip Mandelstam", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 dare to keep me like an animal And fling my food on the floor, I won’t fall silent or deaden the agony, But shall write what I am free to write, My naked body gathering momentum like a bell, And in a corner of the ominous dark I shall yoke ten oxen to my voice And move my hand in the darkness like a plough And, wrung out into a legion of brotherly eyes, Shall fall with the full heaviness of a harvest, Exploding in the distance with all the force of a vow, And in the depths of the unguarded night The eyes of that unskilled laborer, earth, shall shine And a flock of flaming years swoop down, And like a ripe thunderstorm Lenin shall burst forth. 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