Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?


Quoted in Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir (1970), ch. 35

Osip Mandelstam Quotes

Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?

Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?

Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?

Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?