Poetry Quote by Anna Akhmatova — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“This cruel age has deflected me,”

“I have a lot of work to do today;”

“I asked him then: 'What are you after?'”

“Flowers, cold from the dew,”

“I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love”

“As the future ripens in the past,”

“We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.”

“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”

“I want to unfold.”

“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.”

“The saddest word”

“Don't let a king”