"White Night", Anna Akhmatova (translated by D. M. Thomas)
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Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Reed; from ‘The Sentence’, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer
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Anna Akhmatova, White Flock
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Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz, from Poems of Akhmatova; "To The Londoners,"
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Rising from the past, my shadow
Is running in silence to meet me.
Anna Akhmatova
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This morning is drunk with spring sun,
And on the terrace the smell of roses is louder...
Anna Akhmatova, from “This morning is drunk with spring sun” (excerpt from “Deception”, in Evening), The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Expanded Edition, trans. Judith Hemschemeyer
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"Why is our century worse than any other?"
by Anna Akhmatova
Why is our century worse than any other?
Is it that in the stupor of fear and grief
It has plunged its fingers in the blackest ulcer,
Yet cannot bring relief?
Westward the sun is dropping,
And the roofs of towns are shining in its light.
Already death is chalking doors with crosses
And calling the ravens and the ravens are in flight.
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"I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love."
― Anna Akhmatova, The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941
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musings on grief
Lisa Marie Basile, Nick Alm, Callista Buchen, Max Porter, Gustav Klimt, Fortesa Latifi, Safet Zec, Anna Akhmatova, Chen Chen, Sergey Andriyaka, Anne Carson, Svetlana Tartakovska, Max Porter, Lindsey Kustusch, Patrick Kavanagh
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Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: White Flock; from ‘We will be together, darling, together…’, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer
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“…Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
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Anna Akhmatova, from Complete Poems
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