37 Quotes & Sayings By Anna Akhmatova

Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (27 October 1892 – 10 March 1966), better known by her pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a prominent Russian poet, who wrote many notable collections of poetry, including Requiem (1924), Poem of the End (1941) and Requiem (1945). Often called the "Soviet Emily Dickinson", she is best known for her cycle of poems Requiem.

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For this gloomy beast within my breast - A heart. But the thing is, We've all had to learn not to sleep for three years. In the morning we shall find out Who has died in the night. Anna Akhmatova
2
In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless appendix to its prisons. Anna Akhmatova