Brain Quote by Christian Wiman

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you…

— Christian Wiman

Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas as well…

— Christian Wiman

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

— Christian Wiman

Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his…

— Christian Wiman

[Osip] Mandelstam was killed by Stalinist forces.

— Robert Hass

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

— Helen Dunmore

“Mandelstam was, one is tempted to say, a modern Orpheus: sent to hell, he never returned, while his widow dodged across one-sixth of the…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Once in power, Stalin’s campaign to succeed Lenin required a legitimate heroic career which he did not possess because of his experience in what…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

'Daddy used to be a Georgian,' Stalin's son, Vasily, once said. Actually, the dictator didn't truly become Russian; he remained Georgian culturally. Yet he…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible…

— Nat Hentoff

“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing…

— Robert Harris

“Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a…

— Adolf Hitler