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soracities · 8 months

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Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poems for Akhmatova (#2), Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone) [ID in ALT]

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #marina tsvetaeva #poems for akhmatova #selected poems of marina tsvetaeva #sing me down into the dark #m #x #reading #russian lit

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metamorphesque · 4 months

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"White Night", Anna Akhmatova (translated by D. M. Thomas)

#quotes #literature #poetry #classic literature #translated literature #poems #anna akhmatova #russian classics #russian literature

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derangedrhythms · 7 months

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Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Reed; from ‘The Sentence’, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer

#anna akhmatova #the complete poems of anna akhmatova #reed #the sentence #poetry #excerpts #memory

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amicus-noctis · 1 month

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“…Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.” ― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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llovelymoonn · 1 year

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on november

nina maclaughlin the paris review: "on the first of november, the ghosts arrive" \\ emily dickinson in a letter to elizabeth holland (early nov, 1865) (via @flowerytale) \\ anna akhmatova rosary \\ philip jenks colony collapse metaphor: "november" \\ robert frost the complete poems: "my november guest" \\ ellis nightingale (@ellisnightingale) \\ @honeytuesday \\ nina maclaughlin the paris review: "the dark feels different in november" \\ l.m. montgomery anne of green gables \\ maggie stiefvater the scorpio races (via @metamorphesque) \\ sylvia plath the unabridged journals of sylvia plath (via @louisegluck)

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perfectquote · 9 days

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You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.

Anna Akhmatova, You Will Hear Thunder

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quotefeeling · 4 months

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You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.

Anna Akhmatova, You Will Hear Thunder

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oldwinesoul · 5 months

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// Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems

#anna akhmatova #dark academia #spilled poetry #spilled ink #words #spilled thoughts #19th century #vintage #love poem

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perfectfeelings · 7 months

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You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.

Anna Akhmatova, You Will Hear Thunder

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hacked-wtsdz · 5 months

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Modern poetry often doesn’t seem like poetry to me. If you take away the structure and write it down into a normal one-paragraph text, it takes nothing away from the poem. The author could have said it in prose better than in poetry, even. And I know that poetry is a very subjective art, with its edges blurred, with many styles and ways to express oneself. You have haikus and different kinds of rhyming poetry and blank verse. But I’ve seen many poems, and blank verse isn’t the same as putting prose in poetry format.

To me, poetry is allegory. Poetry is symbolism. Poetry is metaphor. Poetry is the ‘wine-dark sea’. You read Whitman or Margaret Atwood or Richard Siken or Mary Oliver or Anna Akhmatova, and you know that if the structure is taken away, you are left with something nearly nonsensical. You think that you’re reading, when in reality you’re looking at a painting and listening to a symphony and watching geese fly to the south.

You read Nikita Gill and think ‘yes, I agree. I agree but I don’t feel anything. You could’ve written for journals, and your talent wouldn’t have gone to waste’.

Not to upset any Nikita Gill fans but i am tired of calling something that only looks like poetry to me poetry.

#poetry #poems #modern poetry #Margaret Atwood #anna akhmatova #richard siken #walt whitman #mary oliver #contemporary poetry #also as someone raised on Russian poetry #which almost always rhymes and is always filled with metaphors and allegories and symbols #it’s hard to find things that would live up to this sort of artistry #russian poetry

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resqectable · 8 months

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You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.

Anna Akhmatova, You Will Hear Thunder

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soracities · 10 months

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Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poems for Akhmatova (#4), Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone) [ID in ALT]

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #marina tsvetaeva #poems for akhmatova #selected poems of marina tsvetaeva #reading #russian lit #m #x

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metamorphesque · 4 months

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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

#grief #quotes #literature #poetry #classic literature #art #poems #web weaving #parallels #max porter #gustav klimt #anna akhmatova #chen chen #anne carson

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derangedrhythms · 7 months

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