Final Meeting Quotes

“Real tenderness can’t be confused, It’s quiet and can’t be heard.”
― Anna Akhmatova, Final Meeting: Selected Poetry of Anna Akhmatova

“He left his soul behind and told me:
It’ll be safer by your side.”
― Anna Akhmatova, Final Meeting: Selected Poetry

“But at this moment he surely knows sorrow
No less than the wise and the old.
It seems that his eyes have begun to grow narrow,
And their brilliant light is now cold.”
― Anna Akhmatova, Final Meeting: Selected Poetry

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