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“As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of dead leaves.”
― Poems of Akhmatova
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of dead leaves.”
― Poems of Akhmatova
“نحن هل نحن في الوجود سوى الجهلِ
مصُوغاً في صورة الانسانِ؟
كلُّ ما في الأكوانِ يحكمنا ماذا
إذنْ سرُّ ذلك الطُغيانِ”
― ديوان نازك الملائكة ـ المجلد الأول
مصُوغاً في صورة الانسانِ؟
كلُّ ما في الأكوانِ يحكمنا ماذا
إذنْ سرُّ ذلك الطُغيانِ”
― ديوان نازك الملائكة ـ المجلد الأول
“The word landed with a stony thud
Onto my still-beating breast.
Nevermind, I was prepared,
I will manage with the rest.
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. . .
But how. The hot summer rustles
Like a carnival outside my window;
I have long had this premonition
Of a bright day and a deserted house. ”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Onto my still-beating breast.
Nevermind, I was prepared,
I will manage with the rest.
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. . .
But how. The hot summer rustles
Like a carnival outside my window;
I have long had this premonition
Of a bright day and a deserted house. ”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
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