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My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Osip Mandelstam The Selected Poems growth poetry

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 Selected Poems metaphor poetry simile

I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have not lost the gift of being able to drink of its inner strength…

Osip Mandelstam poetry russia

Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.

Osip Mandelstam poetry

One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continuity and tradition. Tradition cannot be contrived or learned. In its absence one …

Osip Mandelstam history

The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled words, the layers of air in the semi-vowels.

Osip Mandelstam Journey to Armenia armenia armenian language

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 existence poetry

The earth is buzzing with metaphor

Osip Mandelstam earth metaphor

The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders, But I am no wolf by blood.

Osip Mandelstam danger totalitarianism

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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day

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The old plural of Eye.

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AND STILL ___

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