Force Quote by Robert Hass Download Open image “[Osip] Mandelstam was killed by Stalinist forces.” — Robert Hass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Force
“And after his death - or even before it, perhaps - he lived on in camp legend as a demented old man of seventy… — Nadezhda Mandelstam Copy Share Image
The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem is about… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“In contrast, the Soviet answer to Paperclip, Operation Osoaviakhim, used the implied threat of imprisonment, torture, and death, the characteristic tools of Stalinist Russia,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed. — Grover Furr Copy Share Image
“When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the one who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted the truth… — M T Anderson Copy Share Image
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
“And so the Red Army, squeezed between two of the most brutal dictators in human history, fought on. - Symphony for the City of… — M T Anderson Copy Share Image
“In his lifetime, Stalin will murder millions of people. Some will be shot, others will be denied food and ultimately die of starvation, millions… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“More troubling still had been the sickening revelation, in April 1943, that more than twenty thousand Polish officers, police officers, and members of the… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
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