"Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To……" — Osip Mandelstam

"Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed."

— Osip Mandelstam

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12 Quotes by Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.
Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black…
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of…
A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography…
Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth…
I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.
Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You…
Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we…
Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.

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