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Declan Forde

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“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”
― Anna Akhmatova

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“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, Selected Poems

tags: smells

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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”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941

tags: ahmatova, anna-akhmatova, clarity, enlightment, fear, love, pain, poetry

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