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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Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Reed; from ‘The Sentence’, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer
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― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
[text ID: You are untranslatable / Into any one tongue.]
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What is lurking in the mirror? / Grief.
— Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
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"You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire."
― Anna Akhmatova
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“And if I die, then who will write my poems to you?”
Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
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Anna Akhmatova, from Complete Poems
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...And again there was silence, and again the ghost of summer.
Anna Akhmatova, “And in the depths of music...” from Poems, 1957-1966, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (tr. Judith Hemschemeyer)
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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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(i’m obsessed with you)
rainer maria rilke book of hours: love poems to god: “extinguish my eyes, i’ll go on seeing you” (tr. anita barrows & joanna macy) (via @derangedrhythms) \\ anna akhamtova the complete poems of anna akhmatova: uncollected poems and fragments 1957-1966 \\ anna akhmatova poem without a hero and selected poems: “to alexander blok” (tr. lenore mayhew & william mcnaughton) (via @feral-ballad)
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{Alice Oseman, Radio Silence/ Emily Palermo, from Untitled/ Franz Kafka, from Diaries/ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar/ Marya Hornbacher, Waiting/ Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. May 1922/ Mahmoud Darwish/ Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova; "The Old Portrait"/ Lyric Hunter, from "A Garden," Swallower/ Albert Camus/ Varsha/ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Meek One}
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Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems; “The Spring Was Still Mysterious and Gentle,”
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