Quotes from Osip Mandelstam

The came of the instinctive heaven Is attained through experience and sweat.

Non ho alcun preciso sentimento nei riguardi della società, di Dio e dell'uomo, però con tanta maggiore forza amo la vita, la fede e l'amore.

Ist die Literatur vielleicht ein Bär, der seine Pfote leckt, ein bleierner Schlaf nach getaner Pflicht, auf dem Diwan des Arbeitszimmers?

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I fear you will be understood only by those who wear the helpless smile of people who have lost themselves in the dark wood

O what a threadbare life we lead, how pitifully poor the words of joy! All has been seen, all will be seen again, only the moment of recognition is sweet.