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Poems of Akhmatova QUOTES

Poems of Akhmatova QUOTES

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

― Anna Akhmatova , Poems of Akhmatova

2 " Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure.
The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping,
And all my thoughts are innocent and pure. "

― Anna Akhmatova , Poems of Akhmatova

3 " A town loved with bitter love. "

― Anna Akhmatova , Poems of Akhmatova

4 " Once taken by her, you glowed
And you drank her poisons, content.
Because all the stars seemed to grow,
And fields had a different scent,
Autumn fields. "

― Anna Akhmatova , Poems of Akhmatova

5 " I, like a river,
Have been diverted by the ruthless era.
My life was switched.
It flows
Into another channel, past strange lands,
And I no longer recognize my shores. "

― Anna Akhmatova , Poems of Akhmatova

6 " I hear the oriole’s always-grieving voice,
And the rich summer’s welcome loss I hear
In the sickle’s serpentine hiss
Cutting the corn’s ear tightly pressed to ear.
And the short skirts of the slim reapers
Fly in the wind like holiday pennants,
The clash of joyful cymbals, and creeping
From under dusty lashes, the long glance.

I don’t expect love’s tender flatteries,
In premonition of some dark event,
But come, come and see this paradise
Where together we were blessed and innocent.

—Anna Akhmatova, “I hear the oriole’s always-grieving voice,” Poems. (Everyman's Library; 1 edition May 16, 2006) "

― Anna Akhmatova , Poems of Akhmatova