Quote of the day
For I've read in many a novel that, unless they've souls that grovel,
Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
Osip Mandelstam
Born: January 3, 1891
Died: December 27, 1938 (aged 47)
Bio: Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union and husband of Nadezhda Mandelstam. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.
Known for:
- Selected Poems
- Moscow & Voronezh notebooks
- The noise of time (1925)
- Stalin Epigram