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“Seaside gusts of wind,
And a house in which we don't live,
And the shadow of a cherished cedar
In front of a forbidden window...
Perhaps there is someone in this world
To whom I could send all these lines. Well then!
Let the lips smile bitterly
And a tremor touch the heart again.”
― Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems

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#2

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#3

“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#4

“I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: embodiment, illness

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#5

“Call me a sinner,
Mock me maliciously:
I was your insomnia,
I was your grief.”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#6

“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: living, poetry, soul

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#7

“Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.”
― Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems

tags: smells

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#8

“It's an abominable fallacy that suffering makes for greater art. Suffering blinds, deafens, ruins, and often kills. Osip Mandelstam was a great poet before the revolution. So was Anna Akhmatova, so was Marina Tsvetaeva. They would have become what they became even if none of the historical events that befell Russia in this century had taken place: because they were gifted. Basically, talent doesn't need history.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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#9

“Regarding myself as a mere echo,
Cave-like, unintelligible and nocturnal . . .”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

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#10

“you are many years late; how happy I am to see you”
― Anna Akhmatova

tags: fugitive-pieces

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#11

“Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem
too insignificant for our concern?
Yet in my heart I never will deny her,
who suffered death because she chose to turn.

- Lot's Wife”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#12

“Now that you're there, where everything is knowntell me:
What else lived in that house besides us?”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: haunting

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#13

“Forgive me that I felt forsaken,
That grief and angst was all I knew.
Forgive me that I kept mistaking
Too many other men for you.”
― Anna Akhmatova, White Flock

tags: poetry, trust

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#14

“We will not drink from the same cup -
Neither water nor sweet wine is ours,
We will not kiss as the sun goes up
Or gaze at the night, on the sill, for hours.
I breathe by the moon, you – by the sun”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#15

“He loved three things
in this life:
Vespers, white peacocks,
And old maps of America,
Didn't love children crying,
Raspberries with tea,
Or feminine hysteria
...And I
was his wife.”
― Anna Akhmatova, Poem Without a Hero & Selected Poems

tags: poetry, russian

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#16

“No other looked into her secret eyes.
Nobody dared.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

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#17

“And it’s not because I’m tortured
Or by some delirium swayed
That I conjure up misfortune:
It is just my trade.”
― Anna Akhmatova, White Flock

tags: misfortune, poetry

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#18

“But I am not allowed to forget
The taste of the tears of yesterday.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: memories, remember, remembering, sorrow, tears

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#19

“Did not scold me, did not praise me,
Like friends and like enemies.
Only left his soul to me
And then said, "Now keep in peace."

And one thing worries me so:
If this moment he will die,
God's archangel will come to me
For his soul from the sky.

How then will I hide her so,
How to hide it from God's eyes?
She, the soul, that cries and sings so
Must be in His paradise.”
― Anna Akhmatova

tags: death, heaven, poetry, religion, russian

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#20

“I was born not late and not early,
This time is blessed and meet,
Only God did not allow a heart
To live long without deceit.

And from this it is dark in the light room,
And from this do the friends I've sought,
Like the sorrowful birds of evening,
Sing of love that was not.”
― Anna Akhmatova

tags: birth, life, love, poetry, russian, truth

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#21

“Insomnia is when both sides of the pillow feel hot”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#22

“Now the pillow’s

Hot on both sides.

A second candle

Dies, the ravens cry

Endlessly.

No sleep all night,

Too late to think of sleep…

How unbearably white

The blind’s white deep.

Hello, Morning!”
― Anna Akhmatova

tags: selected-poems

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#23

“Isn't it the sea?
No, it's only graveyard
Pine-needles, and in a boiling of foam,
Still closer,closer...
Marche funèbre”
― Anna Akhmatova, Requiem and Poem Without a Hero

tags: sea

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#24

“Only the dead smiled back in those days,
Being at peace and safe from abuse.”
― Anna Akhmatova, Final Meeting: Selected Poetry

tags: poetry

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#25

“All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

tags: division, unity

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#26

“We seek the fire of the spark that is already within us.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, enlightenment, fire, fire-quotes, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, love, love-wins, one-love, oneness, spark, sufi, sufism, togetherness, truth, union, unity

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#27

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#28

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#29

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#30

“Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.”
― Kanye West

tags: music

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