“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
“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
“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.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of myself in my songs,
That I appeared to you in waking dreams.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“I myself, from the very beginning,
Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium
Or a reflection in someone else's mirror,
Without flesh, without meaning, without a name.
Already I knew the list of crimes
That I was destined to commit.”
―
Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium
Or a reflection in someone else's mirror,
Without flesh, without meaning, without a name.
Already I knew the list of crimes
That I was destined to commit.”
―
“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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