Top 23 Mandelstam Poetry Quotes
#1. There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.
William Faulkner
#2. Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.
Rick Riordan
#3. I was born in the night of the second and third
Of January, ninety-something-or-other,
An unreliable year, and the centuries
Surround me with fire.
Osip Mandelstam
#4. 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
#5. I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't think it would make much sense to say that this is something that's "missing" from contemporary American poetry.
Christian Wiman
#6. Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his - Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva - though their work is more "urgent" than most American poetry, seem to me to operate at a lesser charge than Mandelstam.
Christian Wiman
#7. With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.
Jennifer Westfeldt
#8. 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-a sign of unparalleled respect-because they are still capable of living by it.
Osip Mandelstam
#10. Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.
L.M. Montgomery
#11. I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.
Michael Chabon
#12. The practice of love is the procreation of hope.
Bryant McGill
#13. I don't want to be on the cover of Playboy or Vogue.
Adele
#14. Patricia [Rozema] is really special, and she really worked hard to make the environment and the landscapes' natural beauty come alive. She was not forceful with anything, but enabled it to really have this poetic nature.
Ellen Page
#15. We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.
Alistair Begg
#17. I hope for a light grief in old age.
I was born in Rome and it has returned to me.
My autumn was a kind of she-wolf,
And August - the month of Caesars - smiled at me.
Osip Mandelstam
#18. 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
#19. By the time I arrived for my freshman year at Swarthmore College in 1979, I had already had many seizures, although my family, friends and I did not know it.
Kurt Eichenwald
#21. Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.
John Powell
#22. Only in Russia poetry is respected
it gets people killed.
Osip Mandelstam
#23. We are all of us walking a razor's edge between darkness and light,
Ichabod
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