Anna Akhmatova Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Courage, Children

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water
  high clouds
  to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched,
  a messenger of blessed rain,
  but this was as dry as hell must be.
  My distraught perception refused
  to believe it, because of the insane
  suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit,
  and how casually it came
  to murder my child.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Children, Rain, Believe

  "The First Long Range Artillery Fire On Leningrad". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1993.

• Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Children, Insomnia

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1993). “A stranger to heaven and earth: poems of Anna Akhmatova”, Shambhala Pubns

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