Mandelstam Russian Quotes

#1. Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#2. I made a list of inventions the world would be better off without and, one by one, I uninvented them all.

Neil Gaiman

#3. Pathetic Earthlings ... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.

Mary Kay Ash

#4. Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

John Sununu

#5. And I would sit there, smiling stupidly and realizing they had no idea how rare and lucky they were, and realizing further that this ignorance of their great good fortune could well be the whole trick of achieving it in the first place.

Ron Currie Jr.

#6. 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

#7. All I want to do is, help you rebuild yourself.
Restructure your devastated heart. For I
know, it's impossible to build the exact same
shrine once destroyed in a place but at least
you can make a garden of bliss over a
wreckage

Sameer Khan

#8. Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead you, stop, get very quiet, and the world should begin to change for you. And if you see me, say something! We can talk about it together.

Jerry Saltz

#9. Where am I when I am involved in a book?

Sven Birkerts

#10. If you're about to take a risk
one that comes from within, one that expresses your true nature, that brings up fear after fear after fear
you know what to do. One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They're the only ones that matter.

Kamal Ravikant

#11. Beauty is a sense of harmony.

Ayn Rand

#12. Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
Roses do blush and hang their heads

Henry Noel Brailsford

#13. It's all good, Hazel Grace. But just be clear, when I thought I saw Caroline Mathers' ghost in support group, I was not entirely happy. I was staring, but I wasn't yearning, if you know what I mean.

John Green

#14. I don't want to understand Facebook.

Charlie Munger

#15. It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#16. 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

#17. God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

John Muir

#18. 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

#19. Destroy your manuscript, but save whatever you have inscribed in the margin out of boredom, out of helplessness, and, as it were, in a dream. (The Egyptian Stamp)

Osip Mandelstam