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

“This cruel age has deflected me,”

“You will hear thunder and remember me,”

“Flowers, cold from the dew,”

“I have a lot of work to do today;”

“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”

“We, unaccustomed to courage”

“I think I like my brain best”

“I saw thee once - only once - years ago:”

“The Night Is Darkening Round M”

“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for which we can obtain and seek no sympathy from any living creature, and which yet we cannot, or will not wholly crush, we often naturally seek relief in poetry—and often find it, too—whether in the effusions of others, which seem to harmonize with our existing case, or in our own attempts to give utterance to those thoughts and feelings in strains less musical, perchance, but more appropriate, and therefore more penetrating and sympathetic, and, for the time, more soothing, or more powerful to rouse and to unburden the oppressed and swollen heart.”

“What happens to a dream deferred?”