Quotes from Akhmatova
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
I present to you a selection of quotes from the poet Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966).
The fate of Akhmatova and her loved ones in the country of the Soviets was tragic; it was not for nothing that she received the nickname Muse of Lamentation.
Quotes are divided into topics: relationships, about yourself, love, homeland, poetry, life ethics, women and men, life, experiences, death, mother, word, happiness, people, hell, marriage, loneliness, time, God, music.
About relationships
From others I receive praise that is evil. From you and blasphemy - praise.
You are obnoxious and willful, But for some reason you are dearer than everyone else. It was stuffy from the burning light, And his glances were like rays. I just shuddered: this one can tame me.
You made me up. There is no such thing in the world, there cannot be such a thing in the world.
I drank both joy and sadness to the dregs, like water from a ladle. I know everything, but I don’t know what kind of soul you have.
And when they cursed each other In white-hot passion, Both of us still did not understand How small the earth is for two people
True tenderness cannot be confused with anything, and it is quiet, but you always know exactly about its presence.
There are no more betrayals, no more betrayals, And you don’t listen until the light, How the stream of evidence flows of My incomparable rightness.
You were scared by our first meeting, and I was already praying for the second.
I drink to the ruined house, To my evil life, To the loneliness of the two of us, And to you I drink, To the lies of the lips that betrayed me, To the dead coldness of the eyes, To the fact that the world is cruel and rude, To the fact that God did not save.
And the stone word fell on my still living chest. It’s okay, because I was ready. I'll deal with this somehow. I have a lot to do today: I need to completely kill my memory, I need my soul to turn to stone, I need to learn to live again.
Abandoned! Invented word - Am I a flower or a letter? And the eyes are already looking sternly into the darkened dressing table.
I'm sorry that I lived in sorrow and didn't enjoy the sun much. I'm sorry, I'm sorry that I mistook too many people for you.
Come see me. Come. I am alive. I'm in pain. No one can warm these hands, These lips said: “Enough!”
About Me
I received the nickname “wild girl” because I walked barefoot, wandered without a hat, threw myself from a boat into the open sea, swam during a storm, and sunbathed until my skin peeled off, and with all this I shocked the provincial Sevastopol young ladies.
Such as there is. I wish you another. Better.
So many stones have been thrown at me, That not a single one of them is scary anymore, And a trap has become a slender tower, High among the tall towers.
Tell me, why did my great country, which expelled Hitler with all his equipment, need to walk all the tanks through the chest of one sick old woman?
I was in great glory, experienced the greatest infamy - and was convinced that, in essence, it was one and the same thing.
I grant forgiveness to everyone, And on the Resurrection of Christ, I kiss those who betrayed me on the forehead, And those who did not betray me - on the lips.
When, out of habit, I call my treasured friends’ names, always at this strange roll call only silence answers me.
People who don't respect me don't come to me because they're not interested; and people who respect me don’t come out of respect, they’re afraid to bother me.
Others take away their loved ones, - I don’t look after you with envy, - I’ll soon be sitting alone in the dock for half a century.
About love
Love conquers deceptively With a simple, unskillful melody.
Twenty first. Night. Monday. The outlines of the capital in the darkness. Some slacker wrote that there is love on earth.
Everyone on this earth should experience love torture.
And the next day I’ll play my role again And laugh at random again. Remember you said that love is pain? You made a mistake. Love is hell.
My beloved always has so many requests! A woman who has fallen out of love has no requests.
The darkest days of the year must become brighter. I can’t find words to compare - Your lips are so tender.
And only in the flame of love will the wall of resentment, misunderstanding and laziness be destroyed! Tired by your long gaze, And she herself has learned to languish.
Created from your rib, How can I not love you?
There is a cherished line in the closeness of people, It cannot be crossed by love and passion...
We will not drink from the same glass, neither water nor sweet wine, we will not kiss early in the morning, and in the evening we will not look out the window. You breathe the sun, I breathe the moon, But we live by love alone.
So the days go by, multiplying sorrows. How can I ask the Lord for you? You guessed it: my love is such that even you couldn’t kill her.
Everyone you truly loved will remain alive for you.
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About the homeland
I had a voice. He called comfortingly, He said: “Come here, Leave your deaf and sinful land, Leave Russia forever. I will wash the blood from your hands, I will take the black shame out of my heart, I will cover the pain of defeats and insults with a new name.” But indifferently and calmly I closed my ears with my hands, so that the sorrowful spirit would not be defiled by this unworthy speech!
I sewed a bitter new thing for a friend. The Russian land loves, loves blood.
In fact, no one knows what era he lives in. So we didn’t know at the beginning of the 1990s that we were living on the eve of the European War and the October Revolution.
The air of exile is bitter, like poisoned wine.
We know what is now on the scales and what is happening now. The hour of courage has struck on our watch, And courage will not leave us. It’s not scary to lie under dead bullets, It’s not bitter to be homeless, - And we will save you, Russian speech, the Great Russian word.
Dostoevsky knew a lot, but not everything. For example, he thought that if you kill a person, you will become Raskolnikov. And now we know that you can kill five, ten, a hundred people and go to the theater in the evening.
Here the most beautiful girls argue for the honor of being married to the executioners, here the righteous are tortured at night and starved to death by uncontrollable hunger.
Now the prisoners will return, and the two Russias will look into each other’s eyes: the one that imprisoned, and the one that was imprisoned.
About poetry
If only you knew from what rubbish poems grow without shame...
You can be a wonderful poet, but write bad poetry.
Poems, even the greatest ones, do not make the author happy.
The poet has a secret relationship with everything that he once composed, and it often contradicts what the reader thinks about a particular poem.
My soul is closed from everyone, And only poetry opens the door. And there is no rest for the seeking heart... Not everyone is given the opportunity to see its light.
The poet’s gift cannot be taken away; he needs nothing but talent.
Do not repeat - your soul is rich - What was once said, But perhaps poetry itself - One magnificent quote.
Poems are also divided into those that the poet can remember how he wrote them, and those that seem to have spontaneously arisen. In some, the author is doomed to hear the voice of the violin that once helped him compose them, in others - the knock of the carriage that prevented him from writing them. Poems can be associated with the smells of perfumes and flowers.
About life ethics
Whoever is afraid of something will happen to him. There is no need to be afraid of anything.
Stronger than anything in the world are the rays of calm eyes.
To live like this in freedom, to die like this at home.
Treason can be forgiven, but resentment cannot.
When people on the street shout “Fool!” no need to turn around.
About women and men
Men, do you think women love handsome men or heroes? No, they love those who deal with them!
Could Biche, like Dante, create, Or could Laura glorify the heat of love? I taught women to speak... But, God, how can I silence them!
The eighth of March was invented by impotent people. How can you remember a woman once a year?
Romeo was not there, Aeneas, of course, was.
By the way, quotes about women and quotes about men
About life
We are all a little bit of a guest in life. Life is just a habit.
One goes the straight path, The other goes in a circle And waits to return to his father's house, Waits for his former girlfriend. And I walk - trouble follows me, Not straight and not obliquely, But to nowhere and never, Like trains from a slope.
The most boring thing in the world is other people's dreams and other people's fornication.
I learned to live simply, wisely, Look at the sky and pray to God, And wander for a long time before the evening, To tire out unnecessary anxiety.
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About experiences
Do you know what torture by hope is? After despair comes peace, but from hope they go crazy.
Someone's glances are too tender in the gentle air, barely warmed. I am already getting sick in the summer, having barely recovered from the winter.
Spring! These are just five letters, but there is so much hope and faith in the best, and happiness.
There is nothing more beneficial for the nerves than visiting a place you have never been before.
About death
When we die, it will not become darker, but perhaps it will become lighter.
There is no death - everyone knows this, It has become boring to repeat this, And what there is - let them tell me.
But there is no need to be afraid of death, and there is no need to be afraid of this word. There are many things in life that are much worse than death. All dirt, all abomination comes from the fear of death. And these intellectual things that someone else, a bad person, dies, and not us, must be abandoned. It is we who perish, we who die, and no one else.
About mother
Magdalena struggled and sobbed, the beloved student turned to stone, and where the Mother stood silently, no one dared to look.
I have been screaming for seventeen months, calling you home, throwing myself at the feet of the executioner, you are my son and my horror. Everything is forever mixed up, And I can’t figure out now who is the beast, who is the man, And how long will it be to wait for the execution.
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About the word
Oh, there are unique words, Whoever said them spent too much. Only the blue of Heaven and the mercy of God are inexhaustible.
Gold rusts and steel decays, marble crumbles. Everything is ready for death. The most lasting thing on earth is sadness, And the most lasting thing is the royal word.
By the way, quotes about speech and words
Oh happiness
And I was impudent, angry and cheerful And I didn’t know at all that this was happiness.
He is happy who has passed through the midst of torment, Among the worries and passions of a noisy life, Like a rose that blooms thoughtlessly, And lighter through the waters of a running shadow.
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About people
It’s scary to say, but people only see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear. 90% of monstrous rumors, false reputations, and sacred gossip rest on this property of human nature. I only ask those who disagree with me to remember what they heard about themselves.
A well-bred person does not offend another out of awkwardness. He only offends on purpose.
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About hell
I asked: “What do you want?” He replied: “To be with you in hell.”
I stood for a long time at the heavy gates of hell, But it was quiet and dark in hell... Oh, even the Devil doesn’t need me! Where will I go?
About marriage
He loved three things in the world: Evening singing, white peacocks, and erased maps of America. I didn’t like it when children cry, I didn’t like tea with raspberries, And I didn’t like women’s hysterics. And I was his wife.
Submissive to you? You are crazy! I am submissive to the Lord's will alone. I don’t want any trembling or pain, My husband is an executioner, and his house is a prison.
By the way, quotes about weddings and marriage
About loneliness
There is solitude and loneliness. They seek solitude, they flee from loneliness. It’s terrible when no one is connected to your room, no one breathes in it, no one is waiting for your return.
I sleep - she is alone above me. The one that people call spring, I call loneliness.
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About the time
What is war, what is plague? — the end is imminent to them, Their sentence is almost pronounced. But who will protect us from the horror that was once called the running of time?
The future, as we know, casts its shadow long before it enters.
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About God
In every tree is the crucified Lord, in every ear is the body of Christ, and the most pure word of prayer Heals aching flesh.
For God there are no dead.
About music
I ask the music for mercy on an autumn day, so that that voice of a terrible shadow is not heard in it again.
And the one we call music, for lack of a better name, will she save us?
About miscellaneous
And there are no more tearless people in the world, more arrogant and simpler than us.
The consciousness of the untruth of money is ineradicable in the Russian soul.
Collapsed into himself as if into an abyss.
Who are you fighting against?
Smoking is a chain of humiliation; you always have to ask someone for permission.
Don't give me anything to remember: I know how short memory is.
Of course, Akhmatova’s ability to spiritually withstand the powerful pressure of an entire state for decades is admirable.
Quotes about Akhmatova
- N. Gumilyov: And at night in the ancient and high sky
- I see the records of my destinies
- And I know what about me, distant,
- A siren verse rings for Akhmatova.
- In the morning sleepy hour,
- Longevity will fix
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Poems, even the greatest ones, do not make the author happy.
Who, if not the great Anna Akhmatova, should know that talent and happiness sometimes take different paths. They may meet, or they may never cross paths.
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We must live in such a way that the memory of us is a ray of light illuminating the paths of those who come after us.
The future, as we know, casts its shadow long before it enters.
Anna Andreevna was a great mystic and believed that fate leaves signs everywhere. Our task is to notice them in time, and to do this we need to look not only with our eyes, but also with our hearts.
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A simple but infinitely wise lesson from a woman in whose life there were arrests of loved ones, interrogations, endless prison lines, disgrace, unfair accusations, deprivation, and losses. Do not be afraid of anything, even if fate tests your strength, go through all the trials without closing your eyes in fear, with your head held high.
