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Quotes from White Flock — Anna Akhmatova

1889–1966 Russia

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We aged a hundred years, and this
happened in a single hour:
the short summer had already died,
the body of the ploughed plains smoked.

White Flock (1917)

We thought: we're poor, we have nothing,
but when we started losing one after the other
so each day became
remembrance day,
we started composing poems
about God's great generosity
and — our former riches.

White Flock (1917)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anna Akhmatova (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.