Anna Akhmatova Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Land, Enemy

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Dream, Song, Forgive Me

• Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Fall, Winter

• 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

• 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

• Now no one will listen to songs. The prophesied days have begun. Latest poem of mine, the world has lost its wonder, Don't break my heart, don't ring out.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Heart, World

  "'Now no one will listen to songs...' ('Plantain')". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Richard McKane, 1921.

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