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Ossip Mandelstam: Citations en anglais

“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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Osip Mandelstam

Quoted in Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir (1970), ch. 35

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”

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Osip Mandelstam

Source: The Selected Poems

“Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.”

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Osip Mandelstam

“Where to start?
Everything cracks and shakes,
The air trembles with similes,
No one world's better than another;
the earth moans with metaphors.”

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Osip Mandelstam

Source: Selected Poems

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

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Osip Mandelstam Stalin Epigram

"Stalin Epigram" (November 1933) (Russian: Мы живем, под собою не чуя страны... http://www.litera.ru/stixiya/authors/mandelshtam/my-zhivem-pod.html; English: "We live, not sensing our own country beneath us", http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Russian/MoreMandelstam.htm#_Toc103483111) trans. A. S. Kline.