Source: Critical Prose and Letters
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Famous Osip Mandelstam Quotes
“Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished.”
Source: Critical Prose and Letters
Source: Critical Prose and Letters
“The spiritual disposition of a poet inclines to catastrophe.”
“Poetry is the plough that turns up time, so that the deepest layer, its black earth, is on top.”
Source: Black Earth: Selected Poems and Prose
“Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.”
“I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.”
“Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.”