Osip Mandelstam
Biography
Quotes
- My turn shall also come:I sense the spreading of a wing.
- Where to start?Everything cracks and shakes,The air trembles with similes,No one world's better than another;the earth moans with metaphors.
- 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. People can be killed for poetry here_x0097_a sign of unparalleled respect_x0097_because they are still capable of living by it.
