Osip Mandelstam Quotes

The earth is buzzing with metaphor

The people need poetry that will be their own secretTo keep them awake forever,And bathe them in the...

I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing...

The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled wor...

Where to start?Everything cracks and shakes,The air trembles with similes,No one world's better than...

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

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

One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continu...

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