Author: Anna Akhmatova

Quotes

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

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

- Anna Akhmatova

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

- Anna Akhmatova

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

- Anna Akhmatova

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