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The separation of Culture and the State is the most significant event of our revolution.

— Osip Mandelstam

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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?

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

ON TRANSLATIONS translated into English in The complete critical prose (1997)

We live, but we do not feel the land beneath us,
Ten steps away and our words cannot be heard.

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

The essence of nineteenth century cognitive activity is projection.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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