Anna Akhmatova Quotes

  • I've ceased to smile long ago, The bitter winds now chill my lips, Another hope was just let go, Another song was added since. Against my will, I'll cede this song To people's laug... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future - a terrible festival of dead leaves. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've miss... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • I’m happy. But some beauty is nonesuch - The gently sloping path across the wood, The wretched bridge that’s just a little skewed And that, for which, I won’t be waiting much... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • All my contemporaries - hundred-and-fivers or convicts - will tell you how we lived in barely sentient fear, raising children for the executioner, prison, or the torture chamber. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enc... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • My shadow serves as the friend I crave. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • 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. <span class='nobr'></span>
I've ceased to smile long ago, The bitter winds now chill my lips, Another hope was just let go, Another song was added since. Against my will, I'll cede this song To people's laug...

Anna Akhmatova Friendship Sayings

My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

Friendship, Lonliness

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