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“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
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
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“Poetry is life distilled.”
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“I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love”
― The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941
― The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941
“No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.”
― The Autobiography of My Mother
― The Autobiography of My Mother
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Steven’s 2025 Year in Books
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