Quotes by : Anna Akhmatova

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....

A town loved with bitter love.

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