“I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
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Famous Anna Akhmatova Quotes
“Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.”
Source: You will hear thunder: Akhmatova, poems
Source: Poem without a hero and selected poems
“Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.”
“Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.”
Source: Избранные Стихи
“All that I am hangs by a thread tonight”
Source: Избранные Стихи
“This Cruel Age has deflected me.”
Source: Избранные Стихи
Source: Избранные Стихи
“Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.”
“Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.”
“All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.”
Source: Избранные Стихи
Source: Избранные Стихи
“There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.”
Source: A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem
“I have long had this premonition of a bright day and a deserted house”
“Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.”
“If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.”
Source: Poems