“Only in Russia is poetry respected—it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”
Ossip Mandelstam
3 quotes in the MindQuotes library.
“I have forgotten the word I intended to say, and my thought, unembodied, returns to the realm of shadows.”
“The acmeist is not a bear who dances on a tightrope, but a builder who raises a cathedral.”