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

“You will hear thunder and remember me,”

“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”

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

“I have a lot of work to do today;”

“This cruel age has deflected me,”

“Flowers, cold from the dew,”

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre”

“All of us wild and fighting for our lives. In the fragrant wilderness of this blue night, my heart sings along with the other nocturnal beasts.”

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

“One clear moment, one of trance”

“All war is based in deception (cfr. Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”).”

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.”