"Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed."

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Source : "Hope Against Hope: A Memoir". Book by Nadezhda Mandelstam (Chapter 35), 1970.

Osip Mandelstam

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“What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.”

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“Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.”
“The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.”
“See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.”
“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”
“And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.”
“There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.”
“No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.”

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