217 Quotes by Anna Akhmatova

All ten years of my trepidations,Each and every sleepless night,I placed them all in a quiet wordAnd I voiced it – in vain, unsure.You walked off and with order restored,My soul was empty and pure.~ Confusion

All ten years of my trepidations,Each and every sleepless night,I placed them all in a quiet wordAnd I voiced it – in vain, unsure.You walked off and with order restored,My soul was empty and pure.

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During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’I said, ‘I can!’Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.

In human closeness there is a secret edge,Nor love nor passion can pass it above,Let lips with lips be joined in silent rage,And hearts be burst asunder with the love.And friendship, too, is powerless plot,And so years of bliss with noble tends,When your heart is free and known not,The slow languor of the earthy sense.And they who strive to reach this edge are mad,But they who reached are shocked with anguish hard -Now you know why beneath your handYou do not feel the beating of my heart.

A solitary sorceress: her shadow is still visible on the eve of the new moon.

Oh, quantos espetáculos perdi,quantas vezes o pano ergueu-see caiu sem mim. Quantos de meus amigosnunca encontrei uma só vez em toda a minha vida, (...)

Let love be the gravestoneLying on my life.

المجدُ لكَ أيُّها الألمُ الذِي لا يهدأ ..