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

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

Osip Mandelstam

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