Top 34 Osip Mandelstam Quotes
#1. A raznochinets needs no memory - it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.
Osip Mandelstam
#2. Perhaps the whisper was born before lips,
And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew,
And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss,
Acquire their forms before we do
Osip Mandelstam
#3. The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled words, the layers of air in the semi-vowels.
Osip Mandelstam
#4. Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.
Virginia Woolf
#5. Remember, girl on fire," he says, "I'm still betting on you.
Suzanne Collins
#6. I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.
Osip Mandelstam
#7. 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
#8. The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
Walid Jumblatt
#9. 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
#11. I had to break up with my last girlfriend for lying about being raped by her neighbor. But I've met her neighbor, he's a cool guy. Not like her other creepy ass neighbor though ...
Anthony Jeselnik
#12. Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
Osip Mandelstam
#14. Only in Russia poetry is respected
it gets people killed.
Osip Mandelstam
#15. Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.
Michel De Montaigne
#17. The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders,
But I am no wolf by blood.
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
#20. I want you now so awfully, No longer jealous-green, I bring myself as offering Up to the guillotine.
Osip Mandelstam
#22. Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.
Osip Mandelstam
#23. 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
#24. I am wearied to death with life.
There's nothing it has that I want,
but I celebrate my naked earth,
there's no other world to descant.
Osip Mandelstam
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. For us, all that's left is kisses
tattered as the little bees
that die when they leave the hive.
Osip Mandelstam
#28. My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.
Osip Mandelstam
#29. We [USA] need to deal with our problems here at home if we're going to be strong enough to lead abroad.
Condoleezza Rice
#32. There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.
Andy Garcia
#33. And I walk out of space
Into an overgrown garden of values,
And tear up seeming stability
And self-comprehension of causes.
And your, infinity, textbook
I read by myself, without people -
Leafless, savage medical book,
A problem book of gigantic radicals.
Osip Mandelstam
#34. They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
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