„I have written down the words…“ by Anna Akhmatova
[Text ID: „Because your lips are yours / I forgive their cruel joke…“]
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What does the invisible gaze
of her clear, distrustful eyes see?
— Arseny Tarkovsky, I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky, on Anna Akhmatova, transl by Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev, (2015)
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// Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems
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I've a lot of feeling for you. You're kind. We'll kiss, grow old, walk around. Light months will fly over us like snowy stars.
Anna Akhmatova, from Selected Poems
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I didn’t want the softness to fade from your eyes.
Anna Akhmatova, from Selected Poems
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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)
buy me a chai latte
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Promise again
To come in dreams.
~•Anna Akhmatova•~
#Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, from Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems #photo Philomena Famulok
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"Legend on An Unfinished Portrait" by Anna Akhmatova
[Text ID: "There’s nothing to be sad about. / Sadness is a crime, a prison."]
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@f1blrcreatorsfest week 1: album
Quotes from:
- Louise Glück, The Garden
- Ada Limón,The Vulture & The Body
- Anna Akhmatova, from Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems
inspired by @hungerpunch musing
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do you have any poetry/anthology book recommendations? 🤍
- Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire
- Ariel by Sylvia Plath
- Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Glück
- Averno by Louise Glück
- Certain Magical Acts by Alice Notely
- The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limon
- Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975 by Margaret Atwood
- Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
- The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
- The Moon Is Always Female: Poems by Marge Piercy
- Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik
- Cherry Blossom Epiphany: the poetry and philosophy of a flowering tree by Robin D. Gill
- I Always Carry My Bones by Felicia Zamora
- Howling at the Moon by Darshana Suresh
- The Black Unicorn: Poems by Audre Lorde
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
- Haruko: Love Poems by June Jordan
- The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu
- Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
- Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence by Gregory Orr
- Crush by Richard Siken
- Rose by Li-Young Lee
- A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor: Selected Poems by Maram al-Massri
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