Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie… — Osip Mandelstam Bees Copy Share Image
“Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished.” — Osip Mandelstam Logic 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… — Osip Mandelstam Life Copy Share Image
“The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders, But I am no wolf by blood.” — Osip Mandelstam Danger Copy Share Image
“Life is one in all its manifestations. You must experience everything, be capable of everything, and rejoice in everything.” — Osip Mandelstam Experience Copy Share Image
“I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have… — Osip Mandelstam Inner strength Copy Share Image
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And… — Osip Mandelstam Book Copy Share Image
“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive… — Osip Mandelstam Poetry Copy Share Image
“We have come to love the music of proof. Logical connection for us is not some popular song about a finch, but… — Osip Mandelstam Logic Copy Share Image
I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges. — Osip Mandelstam Bandits Copy Share Image
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with… — Osip Mandelstam Air Copy Share Image
“What tense would you choose to live in? I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle – in… — Osip Mandelstam Life Copy Share Image
“I don't know how it is with others, but for me the charm of a woman increases if she is a young… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continuity and tradition. Tradition cannot… — Osip Mandelstam History Copy Share Image
“I am wearied to death with life. There’s nothing it has that I want, but I celebrate my naked earth, there’s no… — Osip Mandelstam Death Copy Share Image
Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear… — Osip Mandelstam Black Copy Share Image
The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave… — Osip Mandelstam Awake Copy Share Image
Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our… — Osip Mandelstam Bliss Copy Share Image
“If the halls of the Hermitage should suddenly go mad, if the paintings of all schools and masters should suddenly break loose… — Osip Mandelstam Ip Man Copy Share Image
“The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled words, the layers of air in the… — Osip Mandelstam Armenia Copy Share Image
“We live without feeling the country beneath our feet, our words are inaudible from ten steps away. Any conversation, however brief, gravitates,… — Osip Mandelstam Mountain man Copy Share Image
“From childhood he had been devoted to whatever was useless, metamorphosing the streetcar rattle of life into events of consequence, and when… — Osip Mandelstam Childhood Copy Share Image
