"If you were music I would listen to……" — Anna Akhmatova
"If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up."
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Anna Akhmatova
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51 Quotes by Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova has 51 quotes on this site.
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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
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Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide…
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Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I…
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All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
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This Cruel Age has deflected me...
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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
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I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured…
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Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.
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Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.
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All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
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In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad.…
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No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor…
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit,…
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Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.
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Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of…
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When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten,…
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We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
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In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
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If you would and you could brighten my northern sky.
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