Only in Russia poetry is respected it gets peop... - Osip Mandelstam Quote

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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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- Author
- Osip Mandelstam
- Born
- 1 March 1892
- Died
- 12 March 1940
- Occupation
- poet, essayist

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