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Share Do not compare: what lives is incomparable. I felt a a kind of tender fear as I took on the plains' equality and the wide sky became my malady. I summoned the air, my serving man, expected from him services or news, made ready to set out, sail on the arc of expeditions that could never start. Where I have most sky I am glad to roam, and a bright sadness will not let me leave Voronezh and its adolescent hills for the clear human hills of Tuscany. March 16, 1937 Copyright Credit: ''Do not compare: what lives is incomparable'' by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Peter France, from Black Earth

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