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Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another the earth moans with metaphors.

Osip Mandelstam

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Osip Mandelstam
Age: 47 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 2
Died: 1938
Died: December 27
Essayist
Literary Critic
Poet
Translator
Writer
Warszawa
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam
Osip Mandelshtam
Air
Similes
Start
Moans
Another
Trembles
Earth
Simile
Better
Metaphors
Everything
Cracks
World
Shakes
Metaphor

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