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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place. - Anna Akhmatova Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
All has been looted, betrayed, sold black death's wing flashed ahead. - Anna Akhmatova Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. - Anna Akhmatova Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me ... and asked me in a whisper ... 'Can you describe this' And I said 'I can.' - Anna Akhmatova Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Courage Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our childrens children, pure on their tongues, and free. - Anna Akhmatova Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
That was a time when only the dead could smile. - Anna Akhmatova Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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