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

“I have a lot of work to do today;”

“You will hear thunder and remember me,”

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

“Flowers, cold from the dew,”

“As the future ripens in the past,”

“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”

“. . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.”

“Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as”

“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”

“I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?”

“Chase your stars fool, life is short.”

“where do i find self love?'”