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Final Meeting: Selected Poetry
Anna Akhmatova
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I asked him then: 'What are you after?' 'To be in hell with you,' he said.”
“He left his soul behind and told me: It’ll be safer by your side.”
“Autumn, whispering through the maples, Pleaded: 'Die here with me!”
“There are such days before the spring: When meadows rest beneath the snow, And dry and cheerful branches swing When gentle warm winds blow. You marvel at your body’s lightness And do not recognize your home, And sing again with new excitement The song that once seemed tiresome.”
“But at this moment he surely knows sorrow No less than the wise and the old. It seems that his eyes have begun to grow narrow, And their brilliant light is now cold.”
“Thus I live, without singing at all. Neither sky nor earth is for me.”
“The earthly glory is like smoke, I wanted much more than this. In all my lovers I evoked The feelings of joy and bliss. One is still in love somewhere With a friend from long ago, The other stands in the city square,- A statue of bronze in the snow.”
“Only the dead smiled back in those days, Being at peace and safe from abuse.”
“I didn’t want this kind of death, The time-frame that I chose was different.”
“And just how many city skylines Could have evoked my tears, But I know just one city in the world, And I can find it, blindfolded, in a dream.”
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