Anna Akhmatova quote: As the future ripens in the past, so the past...

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

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Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves. - Anna Akhmatova

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