Osip Mandelstam THE NINETEENTH CENTURY translated into English in The complete critical prose (1997)
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Goethe and Romain Rolland paint psychological landscapes, depicting both characters and spiritual conditions, but the Japanese-Flaubertian analytical tanka is a form alien to them.
— Osip Mandelstam THE NINETEENTH CENTURY translated into English
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it,