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Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.
Anna Akhmatova
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Anna Akhmatova
Age: 76 †
Born: 1889
Born: June 23
Died: 1966
Died: March 5
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A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.
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The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones unspoken phrases, silent words.
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Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.
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Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
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