"A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for……" — 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."
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Osip Mandelstam
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12 Quotes by Osip Mandelstam
Osip Mandelstam has 12 quotes on this site.
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I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.
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Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.
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Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black…
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My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.
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And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of…
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Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.
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Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth…
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I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.
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Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You…
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Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we…
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Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.
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More Biographies Quotes
This quote is filed under Biographies Quotes,
one of 333 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers…
— David Bowie
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
— Anita Brookner
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses,…
— A. S. Byatt
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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it…
— Jane Campion
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
— William Ellery Channing
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Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
— Deepak Chopra
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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most…
— Mark Twain
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I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better…
— Charles Babbage
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