“A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays bare the rosy limbs of the pinetrees. Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.” IfsWorldStillsWaterSecretSunForeverAirLandMinesOceanLateWineLaysBottomWaveDrunkMemorableSandSunsetLimbsChillEtherealRosyChalk Author:Anna Akhmatova
“If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.” IfsSpiritLows Author:Anna Akhmatova
“Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.” IfsWorldSecretWaveSunsetEthereal Author:Anna Akhmatova
“I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.” IfsShouldThreeHoursLinesMemoriesProudHundredBarsIronBe ProudMonument Author:Anna Akhmatova
“If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.” IfsGivingI CanGloryGive MeBitterFinding Peace Book:Poems Source: Poems
