Why can't we shake things up, why can't these good translat… - Osip Mandelstam

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Why can't we shake things up, why can't these good translators be utilized in collective undertakings?

Osip Mandelstam

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Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (also spelled Mandelshtam; Russian: О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м; January 15, 1891 – December 27, 1938) was a Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.

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Alternative Names: Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam • Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam • Osip Mandelshtam • Osip E. Mandelstam

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Today a kind of speaking in tongues is taking place. In sacred frenzy poets speak the language of all times, all cultures. Nothing is impossible.

One often hears: that is good but it belongs to yesterday. But I say: yesterday has not yet been born. It has not yet really existed. I want Ovid, Pushkin, and Catullus to live once more, and I am not satisfied with the historical Ovid, Pushkin, and Catullus.

One question conditions the dynamics and balance of color in the composition of a painting: whence the source of light?

Why can't we shake things up, why can't these good translators be utilized in collective undertakings? - Osip Mandelstam

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