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2 Osip Mandelstam Quotes

Osip Mandelstam delivers stark, haunting thoughts on poetry, danger and history.

Osip Mandelstam quotes

  1. We live, but we do not feel the land beneath us, Ten steps away and our words cannot be heard...

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  2. Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?

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