"Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people…" — Osip Mandelstam
"Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed."
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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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A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography…
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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 Gets People Quotes
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one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.
— Tony Dungy
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As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble -…
— Tom Petri
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Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of…
— Edwin Morgan
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I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
— Kyle Chandler
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I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of…
— Emily Browning
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Amway gets people into a new life of excitement, promise, profit, and hope.
— Jay Van Andel
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People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of…
— David Byrne
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Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into…
— Marc Jacobs
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People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of…
— Daniel Kahneman
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I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except…
— Dylan Moran
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. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them…
— Max Brooks
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The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all…
— Mariah Carey
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