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Anna Akhmatova Quotes

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Russian Poet June 23, 1889 – March 5, 1966

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Anna Akhmatova quote: "It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace."
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova quote: "That was when the ones who smiled. Were the dead, glad to be..."
That was when the ones who smiled. Were the dead, glad to be at rest. Anna Akhmatova
All's ringing, roaring, grinding, breakers' crash - and silence all at once, release:it means he is tiptoeing over pine needles,so as not to startle the light sleep of space.And it means he is counting the grainsin the blasted ears; it meanshe has come again to the Daryal Gorge,accursed and black, from another funeral.And again Moscow, where the heart's fever burns.Far off the deadly sleighbell chimes,someone is lost two steps from homein waist-high snow. The worst of times... Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova quote: "As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the..."
As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves. Anna Akhmatova

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