The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

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“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”

“You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”

“I seem to myself, as in a dream, An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”

“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.”

“Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.”

“Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.”

“The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. 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. . . But how. The hot summer rustles Like a carnival outside my window; I have long had this premonition Of a bright day and a deserted house. ”

“And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.”

“I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.”

“We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us in an hour.”

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