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“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")” — Alexander Blok
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")