Best Anna Akhmatova Quotes
- You do not know just what you've been forgiven. Been
- 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… Air
- 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… Age
- I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now. Beginnings
- I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning,… Beginning
- My shadow serves as the friend I crave Crave
- The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered words. Glances that don't intersect Don't know where to come to rest. And only the… Alas
- How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of duty Was bitter… Answers
- Let whoever wants to, relax in the south, And bask in the garden of paradise. Here is the essence of north—and it's autumn I've chosen… Autumn
- Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention. Air
- This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter… Air
- Though you are three times more beautiful than angels, Though you are the sister of the river willows, I will kill you with my singing,… Angel
- 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… Agree
- Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous,… Approaching
- Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you… Appeared
- If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up. Brighten
- I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body. Accidental
- Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue. Any
- And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some reason, quiet. No,… All
- We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us in… Anymore
- 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… Colour
- Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing. Dust
- Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me. From
- Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief. Call
- ... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and… Bounty