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May 21, 2013 • 4 notes

Do not take yourself by the hand…
Do not lead yourself across the river…
Do not point a finger at yourself…
Nor tell fairy tales about yourself…
Go on, go on—and stumble

Anna Akhmatova, “Prologue” (trans. Judith Hemschemeyer)

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April 14, 2013 • 269 notes • slightly

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.

That day in Moscow, it will all come true,
when, for the last time, I take my leave,
And hasten to the heights that I have longed for,
Leaving my shadow still to be with you.

Anna Akhmatova (translation by D. M. Thomas)

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March 4, 2013 • 1,321 notes • travelingteacups

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

You Will Hear Thunder by Anna Akhmatova (via travelingteacups)

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February 14, 2013 • 970 notes • bedbones

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

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December 5, 2012 • 1,321 notes • travelingteacups

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

You Will Hear Thunder by Anna Akhmatova (via travelingteacups)

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November 2, 2012 • 157 notes • chagalov

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Anna Achmatowa, 1926 -by Moissei Nappelbaum

from Galerie Berinson
Moissej Nappelbaum - Portraits of Soviet Intellectual Life [31 May - 24 Nov. 2012]

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July 3, 2012 • 2,404 notes • sea-change

You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms

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February 23, 2012 • 274 notes • awritersruminations

I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is inside me again.”
-Anna Akhmatova, from “A land not mine, still” (translated by Jane Kenyon)

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November 12, 2011 • 205 notes • rabbit-light

Anna Akhmatova, “We Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye”

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We don’t know how to say goodbye.
We wander all over, shoulder to shoulder.
It is already starting to get dark,
You’re thoughtful, and I remain quiet.

Let’s go inside a church, and watch
A baptism, a wedding, a funeral.
Why can’t we live like that?
Let’s leave, not looking at each other.

Or, let us sit in the cemetery,
Quiet in the trampled snow.
And watch you trace with a stick,
Places where we will always be together.

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November 5, 2011 • 274 notes • awritersruminations

I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is inside me again.”
-Anna Akhmatova, from “A land not mine, still” (translated by Jane Kenyon)

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August 12, 2011 • 121 notes • proustitute

To bequeath to some wild violin
One’s horror and despair.

Anna Akhmatova, a fragment from 1958, trans. Judith Hemschemeyer (via proustitute)

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July 23, 2011 • 77 notes • sharingpoetry

Cities change their names, witnesses die,
There is no-one to cry with, no-one to remember
With. And the shades slowly pass from us,
Those shades whom we no longer call upon
And whose return would be terrible to us.
And, once awake, we find we have forgotten
Even the road that led to the lonely house,
And, choked with shame and anger, we run to it,
But everything (as in a dream) is different…

Anna Akhmatova, “The Sixth Elegy,” from Northern Elegies (source; adapted from sharingpoetry) (via proustitute)

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