To deliver life out of captivity, The gnarled knees of the days
Must be bound to a flute.
Source: The Age Mandelstam proposes to build anew world, delivering the old through music
-- Osip Mandelstam, (Jan 3 1891-1938), Polish-Russian poet, critic; His Acmeism was a mixture of poetics and moral doctrine, the former based on an intuitive and purely verbal logic of inner association and the latter on a kind of democratic humanism.