“Beauty is frightening," they will tell you — Lazily you will arrange A Spanish shawl on your shoulders, A red rose in your hair. "Beauty is simple," they will tell you — Clumsily with a motley shawl You will cover a child up, A red rose on the floor. But, distractedly heeding All the words sounding around you, Sadly lost in thought You will say about yourself: 'I am neither frightening nor simple; I am not so frightening, that I would simply Kill; I am not so simple That I do not know how frightening life is.' ("For Anna Akhmatova")”
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Silver Age of Russian Culture
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Alexander Blok
Alexander Blok was a prominent Russian poet, born on November 28, 1880, and died on August 7, 1921. His poetry deeply reflected the turmoil of Russian society and the inner world of individuals at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. more
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