Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
More Quotes from Anna Akhmatova:
If someone someday in this countryDecides to raise a memorial to me,I give my consent to this festivityBut only on this condition - do not build itBy the sea where I was born,I have severed my last ties with the sea...Anna Akhmatova
That was a time when only the dead could smile.
Anna Akhmatova
And from my motionless bronze-lidded sockets may the melting snow, like teardrops, slowly trickle and a prison dove coo somewhere, over and over, as the ships sail softly down the flowing Neva.
Anna Akhmatova
On that occasion there was a woman standing behind me,
her lips blue with cold, who, of course, had never in
her life heard my name.
Anna Akhmatova
That life is a cursed hell:
I've got drunk
On your voice in the doorway.
Anna Akhmatova
I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
Anna Akhmatova
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