"Perhaps my whisper was already born before my…" — Osip Mandelstam
"Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips."
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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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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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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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