Anna Akhmatova Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Not under foreign skies
Nor under foreign wings protected -
I shared all this with my own people
There, where misfortune had abandoned us.
Nor under foreign wings protected -
I shared all this with my own people
There, where misfortune had abandoned us.
Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.
I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.
The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.
But then he touched the flowers
With the dry tips of his fingers.
Tell me how men kiss you.
Tell me how you kiss.
With the dry tips of his fingers.
Tell me how men kiss you.
Tell me how you kiss.
No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there where my people were doomed to be.
I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.
We learned not to meet anymore,
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves won't guarantee
What could happen to us in an hour.
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves won't guarantee
What could happen to us in an hour.
And it's not because I'm tortured
Or by some delirium swayed
That I conjure up misfortune:
It is just my trade.
Or by some delirium swayed
That I conjure up misfortune:
It is just my trade.
A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.
But don't raise your eyes in defiance,
Protect my life, my dear.
They're brighter than first violets,
But deadly to me, I fear.
Protect my life, my dear.
They're brighter than first violets,
But deadly to me, I fear.
And you know, I agree to everything:
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,
Darkness will be light and sin lovely.
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,
Darkness will be light and sin lovely.
As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future
a terrible festival of dead leaves.
a terrible festival of dead leaves.
The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.
Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure.
The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping,
And all my thoughts are innocent and pure.
The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping,
And all my thoughts are innocent and pure.
In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless appendix to its prisons.
I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.
And in the depths of music, I didn't find the answer,
And again there was silence, and again the ghost
of summer.
And again there was silence, and again the ghost
of summer.
I know: yes, no, even I must tear off
The delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is destined to feel
The torments of love.
The delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is destined to feel
The torments of love.