Osip Mandelstam Quote

O indigence at the root of our lives,
how poor is the language of happiness!
Everything's happened before and will happen again,
but still the moment of each meeting is sweet.


Tristia (1922)


O indigence at the root of our lives, how poor is the language of happiness! Everything's happened before and will happen again, but still the moment ...

O indigence at the root of our lives, how poor is the language of happiness! Everything's happened before and will happen again, but still the moment ...

O indigence at the root of our lives, how poor is the language of happiness! Everything's happened before and will happen again, but still the moment ...

O indigence at the root of our lives, how poor is the language of happiness! Everything's happened before and will happen again, but still the moment ...