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)

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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