#theseacouldsaveme

[bydayiamnothingandbynightiami]

More tender than tenderness Is your face, Whiter than white Is your hand, Your mind is so far From the entire world, And everything in you Is made of inevitable.

Made of inevitable Your sadness was, And your fingers, Which get never cold, And the quiet sound Of your cheerful words And eternity In your eyes.

December 1909, Osip Mandelstam

tender than tenderness