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Anna Akhmatova Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.”
— Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Tagged: Love, In love, Metaphor, Lover, Loving Someone, poem, Poetry
“Because love’s silence for the soul
Is too unbearably immense.”
— Anna Akhmatova, Final Meeting: Selected Poetry Of Anna Akhmatova
Tagged: Love, Soul, Feelings, love and soul, poem, Poetry
“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms.”
— Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Tagged: Love, lovers apart, Lovers, ex-lover, Past Love, Past Memories, poem, Poetry
“Because it is beyond all bearing –
The pain of loving soul’s silence.”
— Anna Akhmatova, "I Absolutely Stopped...."
Tagged: Love, loving silently, Pain, pain in loving, romance, poem, Poetry
“I defend. Not my voice, but my silence.”
— Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Tagged: voice, Silence, Defending
“See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.”
— Anna Akhmatova, Anna Of All The Russias: A Life Of Anna Akhmatova
Tagged: Intense emotions, Love, strength, beauty
“Now no-one will be listening to songs. The days long prophesied have come to pass. The world has no more miracles.”
— Anna Akhmatova, Now No-one
Tagged: Disenchantment of the World, Life after God, Suffering In Communist Russia, No Magic
“Faintly if at all the early snowflakes: hover, hover.”
— Anna Akhmatova, Memory of Sun
Tagged: Snow, Winter, Soothing Language
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