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)

Osip Mandelstam Quotes

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 ...