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Osip Mandelstam (1891 – 1938)


Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.
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Osip Mandelstam
We live, but we do not feel the land beneath us,
Ten steps away and our words cannot be heard.
Mandelstam quotes
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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