Many of Osip Mandelstam’s own poems only exist today because they were memorized by his wife & friends before they were burned.
'What man needs is silence & warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.' ~Simone Weil
Many of Osip Mandelstam’s own poems only exist today because they were memorized by his wife & friends before they were burned.
Robert A. Caro