Quotes by : Anna Akhmatova

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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