Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.
A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. - 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.
- Osip Mandelstam
I love my poor earth because I have seen no other. - Osip Mandelstam
I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors. - Osip Mandelstam
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed. - Osip Mandelstam
Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.
Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface. - Osip Mandelstam
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. - Osip Mandelstam
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.
The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing. - Osip Mandelstam
The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.
I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges. - Osip Mandelstam
I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textb… - Osip Mandelstam
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textb…
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