I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed… here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
About Anna Akhmatova
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (23 June [O.S. 11 June] 1889 – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian poet, one of the most significant of the 20th century. She reappeared as a voice of Russian poetry during World War II. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 and 1966.
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I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed… here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
Russian poet (1889-1966)
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.
Russian poet (1889-1966)
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
Russian poet (1889-1966)
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children’s children, pure on their tongues, and free.
Russian poet (1889-1966)
All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death’s wing flashed ahead.
Russian poet (1889-1966)