1. Home »
  2. World Poets »
  3. Osip Mandelstam

"You took away all the oceans and all the room"

by Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam

You took away all the oceans and all the room.
You gave me my shoe-size in earth with bars around it.
Where did it get you? Nowhere.
You left me my lips, and they shape words, even in silence.




Quotes of the Day

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
• Mike Myers


Poems of the Day
  • Edgar Lee Masters
    Dow Kritt
    by Edgar Lee Masters
    Samuel is forever talking of his elm -- But I did not need to die to learn about roots: I, who dug all the ditches about Spoon River. Look at my elm! Sprung from as good a seed as his,