Osip Mandelstam Quotes


Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.


Citations

Mandelstam, Osip. The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam. Translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin, New York Review Books, 2004, p. 77.

Related Quotes

Osip Mandelstam
Osip Mandelstam
  • Born: January 14, 1891
  • Died: December 27, 1938
  • Nationality:
  • Profession: Poet, Essayist

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was the husband of Nadezhda Mandelstam and one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets. He was arrested by Joseph Stalin's government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into internal exile with his wife.