Famous Anna Akhmatova Quotes

  • Once taken by her, you glowedAnd you drank her poisons, content. Because all the stars seemed to grow,And fields had a different scent,Autumn fields. – Anna Akhmatova

    Once taken by her, you glowedAnd you drank her poisons, content. Because all the stars seemed to grow,And fields had a different scent,Autumn fields.– Anna Akhmatova

  • I defendNot my voice, but my silence – Anna Akhmatova

    I defendNot my voice, but my silence– Anna Akhmatova

  • But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday. – Anna Akhmatova

    But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday.– Anna Akhmatova

  • No one else was as close and as open, No one else so boiled my blood, Even he, who consigned me to torment, Even he, who caressed and forgot. – Anna Akhmatova

    No one else was as close and as open, No one else so boiled my blood, Even he, who consigned me to torment, Even he, who caressed and forgot.– Anna Akhmatova

  • 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

    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

  • 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

    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

  • I know: yes, no, even I must tear offThe delicate daisy petals.Everyone on earth is destined to feelThe torments of love. – Anna Akhmatova

    I know: yes, no, even I must tear offThe delicate daisy petals.Everyone on earth is destined to feelThe torments of love.– Anna Akhmatova

  • And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer,And again there was silence, and again the ghost of summer. – Anna Akhmatova

    And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer,And again there was silence, and again the ghost of summer.– Anna Akhmatova

  • If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. – Anna Akhmatova

    If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.– Anna Akhmatova

  • I marvel at everything as if it were new. – Anna Akhmatova

    I marvel at everything as if it were new.– Anna Akhmatova