Anna Akhmatova Quotes
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (1985). “You will hear thunder: poems”, Harvill Secker
There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.
Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1989). “Selected Poems”, Dufour Editions
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (1985). “You will hear thunder: Akhmatova, poems”, Ohio Univ Pr
Anna Akhmatova, “The Sentence”
"A land not mine, still". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, as published in "The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova" edited by Roberta Reeder and translated by Judith Hemschemeyer, 1990.
If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (2006). “Poems”, Knopf Publishing Group
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt