Akhmatova Quotes
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Not under foreign skiesNor under foreign wings protected -
I shared all this with my own people
There, where misfortune had abandoned us. — Anna Akhmatova
Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing. — Anna Akhmatova
Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.
— Anna Akhmatova
Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.
— Anna Akhmatova
I always think about the past, it's so large and bright.
— Anna Akhmatova
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. — Anna Akhmatova
The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
— Anna Akhmatova
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
— Anna Akhmatova
I'm not weeping, I'm not complaining,Happiness is not for me. — Anna Akhmatova
No other looked into her secret eyes.Nobody dared. — Anna Akhmatova
You do not know just what you've been forgiven.
— Anna Akhmatova
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.
— Anna Akhmatova
There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.
— Anna Akhmatova
I've got no more tears or explanations.
— Anna Akhmatova
But then he touched the flowersWith the dry tips of his fingers.
Tell me how men kiss you.
Tell me how you kiss. — Anna Akhmatova
I don't long for anyone,But I don't want, don't want, don't want
To know how they kiss each other. — Anna Akhmatova
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.
— Anna Akhmatova
Don't kiss me, I am weary -Death will kiss me. — Anna Akhmatova
I know beginnings, I know endings too,and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now. — Anna Akhmatova
The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.
— Anna Akhmatova
Tomorrow the mirrors will mock me
— Anna Akhmatova
If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.
— Anna Akhmatova
This Cruel Age has deflected me ...
— Anna Akhmatova
I defendNot my voice, but my silence — Anna Akhmatova
All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
— Anna Akhmatova
That was when the ones who smiled Were the dead, glad to be at rest.
— Anna Akhmatova
A town loved with bitter love.
— Anna Akhmatova
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. — Anna Akhmatova
Let love be the gravestoneLying on my life. — Anna Akhmatova
And it's not because I'm tortured Or by some delirium swayed
That I conjure up misfortune:
It is just my trade. — Anna Akhmatova
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.
— Anna Akhmatova
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. — Anna Akhmatova
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. — Anna Akhmatova
Let love become the gravestoneThat lies upon my life. — Anna Akhmatova
My shadow serves as the friend I crave.
— Anna Akhmatova
Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.
— Anna Akhmatova
As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future a terrible festival of dead leaves. — Anna Akhmatova
But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday. — Anna Akhmatova
The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.
— Anna Akhmatova
You are many years late; how happy I am to see you
— Anna Akhmatova
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
— Anna Akhmatova
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. — Anna Akhmatova
In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless appendix to its prisons.
— Anna Akhmatova
Now that you're there, where everything is known-tell me:What else lived in that house besides us? — Anna Akhmatova
It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.
— Anna Akhmatova
I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.
— Anna Akhmatova
Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.
— Anna Akhmatova
And in the depths of music, I didn't find the answer,And again there was silence, and again the ghost
of summer. — Anna Akhmatova
Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.
— Anna Akhmatova
I know: yes, no, even I must tear offThe delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is destined to feel
The torments of love. — Anna Akhmatova
I marvel at everything as if it were new.
— Anna Akhmatova
