Osip Mandelstam Quote

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


"Stalin Epigram" (November 1933) (Russian: Мы живем, под собою не чуя страны...; English: "We live, not sensing our own country beneath us") trans. A. S. Kline.


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

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

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

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