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“Why complain? Poetry is respected only in this country—people are killed for it. There’s no place where more people are killed for it.”
[Osip Mandelstam to his wife Nadezhda]
— Jun 13, 2021 05:09PM
[Osip Mandelstam to his wife Nadezhda]
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“There was nothing remarkable in Stalin anointing himself the nation’s number one poetry critic, since by 1935 he was on the way to becoming the Soviet Union’s final authority in every field of human knowledge, but his choice of Mayakovsky as the poet laureate of the revolution was not without irony.”
— Jun 12, 2021 06:44PM
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Jun 13, 2021 05:43PM
Every cloud has its silver . . . . etc.
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RK, I picture Mandelstam accompanying these words with a lackadaisical shrug. (Perhaps my imagination is getting the better of me.)
Your ‘imagination’ has conjured a much more interesting reading than the one mine had come up with. Let’s both stick with yours T.
