Anna Akhmatova Quotes

Flowers, cold from the dew,And autumn's approaching breath,I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids,Wh...

And you know, I agree to everything:I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,...

I’m not weeping, I’m not complaining,Happiness is not for me.

Let my heiress have full rights,Live in my house, sing songs that I composed.Yet how slowly my stren...

Though you are three times more beautiful than angels,Though you are the sister of the river willows...

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.

I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teac...

We don't know how to say goodbye,We wander on, shoulder to shoulderAlready the sun is going downYou'...

The angel of God, having secretly Betrothed us one winter day,Watches over our carefree livesWith fi...

This land, although not my native land,Will be remembered forever.And the sea's lightly iced,Unsalty...

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the ...

I defendNot my voice, but my silence

And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer,And again there was silence, and again the ghos...

This cruel age has deflected me,like a river from this course.Strayed from its familiar shores,my ch...

Beyond the lake the waning moon has slowed,And stands there like a window open wideInto a hushed and...

Forgive me that I felt forsaken, That grief and angst was all I knew. Forgive me that I kept mistaki...

Why is it that you still beguile me –As wind, stone, bird – and all the likes? Why is that you smile...

I’m happy. But some beauty is nonesuch - The gently sloping path across the wood, The wretched bridg...

No one else was as close and as open, No one else so boiled my blood, Even he, who consigned me to t...

As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves...

Мы не умеем прощаться,-Всё бродим плечо к плечу.Уже начинает смеркаться,Ты задумчив, а я молчу.В цер...

Лотова ЖенаИ праведник шел за посланником Бога,Огромный и светлый, по черной горе.Но громко жене гов...

All's taken away: my love and my power.The body, thrown into city it hates,Finds no joy in the sunli...

My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

For this gloomy beast within my breast - A heart. But the thing is,We've all had to learn not to sle...

In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless a...

I've ceased to smile long ago, The bitter winds now chill my lips, Another hope was just let go, Ano...

Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure. The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping, And all my...

Once taken by her, you glowedAnd you drank her poisons, content. Because all the stars seemed to gro...

A town loved with bitter love.

All my contemporaries—hundred-and-fivers or convicts—will tell you how we livedin barely sentient fe...

I know: yes, no, even I must tear offThe delicate daisy petals.Everyone on earth is destined to feel...

Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,And bask in the garden of paradise.Here is the essence of n...

Tomorrow the mirrors will mock me

Song falls silent, music is dumb,But the air burns with their fragrance,And white winter, on its kne...

But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday.

I marvel at everything as if it were new.