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49 Motivational Quotes By Anna Akhmatova For Ballad Mongers

Famous As: One of the Most Significant Russian Poets of 20th Century
Born On: June 23, 1889
Died On: March 5, 1966
Born In: Odessa, Ukraine
Died At Age: 76
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, renowned by pseudonym Anna Akhmatova, was one of the most illustrious Russian poets. Her works range from tragic masterpieces to short lyric poems. Her style of writing and thoughts have been strikingly archetypal and idiosyncratic from her contemporaries. Russian poetry lovingly embraced her clear and strong female voice and she was able to strike a chord with her audiences instantly. Some of her most noted poems, writings, thoughts and books include ‘Belaya Staya’, ‘Anno Domini’, ‘Poems Of Akhmatova’, ‘The Word That Causes Death’s Defeat: Poems Of Memory’ and ‘Beg Vremeni’ amongst others. Following are some popular quotes and sayings which have been curated from the writings, thoughts, poems and books of the prolific poet. Read through the quotes and thoughts by Anna Akhmatova that contains a world of wisdom. 
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You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...

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

Anna Akhmatova
If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.

Anna Akhmatova
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.

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.

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

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

Anna Akhmatova
My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

Anna Akhmatova
Call me a sinner,
Mock me maliciously:
I was your insomnia,
I was your grief.

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

Anna Akhmatova
As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of dead leaves.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Anna Akhmatova
Your voice is wild and simple.
You are untranslatable
Into any one tongue.

Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.

Anna Akhmatova
You do not know just what you've been forgiven.

You do not know just what you've been forgiven.

Anna Akhmatova
Rising from the past, my shadow
Is running in silence to meet me.

Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.

Anna Akhmatova
Forgive me, that I manage badly,
Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of myself in my songs,
That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

Anna Akhmatova
I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

Anna Akhmatova
And you know, I agree to everything:
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,
Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.

Anna Akhmatova
We learned not to meet anymore,
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves won't guarantee
What could happen to us in an hour.

We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us in an hour.

Anna Akhmatova
Wild honey smells of freedom 
The dust - of sunlight 
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.

Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.

Anna Akhmatova
I have a lot of work to do today; 
I need to slaughter memory, 
Turn my living soul to stone 
Then teach myself to live again.

I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again.

Anna Akhmatova
That was when the ones who smiled
Were the dead, glad to be at rest.

That was when the ones who smiled Were the dead, glad to be at rest.

Anna Akhmatova
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
You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think:

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

Anna Akhmatova
Regarding myself as a mere echo,
Cave-like, unintelligible and nocturnal . . .

Regarding myself as a mere echo, Cave-like, unintelligible and nocturnal . . .

Anna Akhmatova
Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again--

Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again--

Anna Akhmatova
... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood,
with the bounty and vigilance of the stars,
the whole world was his inheritance
and he shared it with everyone.

... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and he shared it with everyone.

Anna Akhmatova
Song falls silent, music is dumb,
But the air burns with their fragrance,
And white winter, on its knees,
Observes everything with reverent attention.

Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention.

Anna Akhmatova
Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,
And bask in the garden of paradise.
Here is the essence of north—and it's autumn
I've chosen as this year's friend.

Let whoever wants to, relax in the south, And bask in the garden of paradise. Here is the essence of north—and it's autumn I've chosen as this year's friend.

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.

- Lot's Wife

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. - Lot's Wife

Anna Akhmatova
We are all carousers and loose women here;
How unhappy we are together!

We are all carousers and loose women here; How unhappy we are together!

Anna Akhmatova
But then he touched the flowers
With the dry tips of his fingers.

But then he touched the flowers With the dry tips of his fingers. "Tell me how men kiss you. Tell me how you kiss.

Anna Akhmatova
All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

Anna Akhmatova
Real tenderness can’t be confused, It’s quiet and can’t be heard.

Real tenderness can’t be confused, It’s quiet and can’t be heard.

Anna Akhmatova
Now that you're there, where everything is known—tell me:
What else lived in that house besides us?

Now that you're there, where everything is known—tell me: What else lived in that house besides us?

Anna Akhmatova