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"22 Anna Akhmatova Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 23 June 1889. Died: 5 March 1966 | Poet |

You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.

Hear thunder Remember me Think Wanted storms
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If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.

Were music Listen to You ceaselessly Low spirits
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I seem to myself, as in a dream, An accidental guest in this dreadful body.

A dream Accidental guest Dreadful body
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As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future,a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Future ripens The past Terrible festival Dead leaves
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Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.

Your voice Wild Simple Untranslatable
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You do not know just what you've been forgiven.

Not know What Been forgiven
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Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.

Rising The past My shadow Running
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I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

Know beginning Ending too Life In death
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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.

I agree Everything Will condemn Forget
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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 an hour.

We learned Meet anyone Raise Our eyes
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Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.

Wild honey Freedom Young girl A violet
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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.

I have Work Slaughter memory Living soul
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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.

I have Work Slaughter memory Living soul
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Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, who suffered death because she chose to turn. - Lot's Wife

Will grave This woman Too insignificant Our concern
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We are all carousers and loose women here; How unhappy we are together!

All carousers Loose women Unhappy Are together
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But then he touched the flowers With the dry tips of his fingers. "Tell me how men kiss you. Tell me how you kiss.

He touched The flowers His fingers Men kiss
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Real tenderness can’t be confused, It’s quiet and can’t be heard.

Real tenderness Be confused It's quiet Be heard
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No one else was as close and as open, No one else so boiled my blood, Even he, who consigned me to torment, Even he, who caressed and forgot.

As close Open So boiled My blood
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Forgive me that I felt forsaken, That grief and angst was all I knew. Forgive me that I kept mistaking Too many other men for you.

Forgive me Felt forsaken Grief Angst
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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.

I'm happy Beauty Gently sloping Path across
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I have long had this premonition of a bright day and a deserted house

Have long This premonition Bright day Deserted house
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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.

Sunset Ethereal waves The day Ending
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Anna Akhmatova Quotes & Sayings