Quotes by Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

… he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and he shared it with everyone.

Childhood

Inheritance

Stars

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.

Memorable

Ocean

Wine

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

Heart

Loss

Wife

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death’s wing flashed ahead.

Betrayed

Black

Wings

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

Thread

Tonight

And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour? Everything trembling and singing and Were you my enemy or my friend, Winter was it or summer?

Eye

Summer

Winter

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

Darkness

Giving

Light

But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.

Ignorant

Night

Poetry

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

Call Me

Grief

Insomnia

During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’ I said, ‘I can!’ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.

Blue

Numbness

Years

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Age

And Love

Angel

Autumn

Beautiful

Believe

Betrayed

Bitter

Black

Blue

Body

Breasts

Broken Heart

Call Me

Childhood

Children

Communication

Confused

Crave

Darkness

Dream

Each Day

Enchantment

Eye

Garden

Generosity

Giving

Glad

Glory

Grief

Hands

Heart

Ignorant

Inheritance

Insomnia

Knows

Lamps

Light

Long

Loss

Love

Memorable

Memories

Men

Miracle

Mirrors

Night

Numbness

Ocean

One Day

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Quotes by Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

… he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and he shared it with everyone.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death’s wing flashed ahead.

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour? Everything trembling and singing and Were you my enemy or my friend, Winter was it or summer?

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

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