Anna Akhmatova Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Nor under foreign wings protected -
I shared all this with my own people
There, where misfortune had abandoned us.

The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.

I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.




With the dry tips of his fingers.
Tell me how men kiss you.
Tell me how you kiss.


and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.

We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves won't guarantee
What could happen to us in an hour.

Or by some delirium swayed
That I conjure up misfortune:
It is just my trade.


Protect my life, my dear.
They're brighter than first violets,
But deadly to me, I fear.

I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,
Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

a terrible festival of dead leaves.


The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping,
And all my thoughts are innocent and pure.



And again there was silence, and again the ghost
of summer.

The delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is destined to feel
The torments of love.