Anna Akhmatova Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

2. As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves. Poems of Akhmatova

3. I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again. The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

4. I’m happy. But some beauty is nonesuch - The gently sloping path across the wood, The wretched bridge that’s just a little skewed And that, for which, I won’t be waiting much. White Flock

5. This cruel age has deflected me,like a river from this course.Strayed from its familiar shores,my changeling life has flowedinto a sister channel.How many spectacles I've missed:the curtain rising without me,and falling too. How many friendsI never had the chance to meet. The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

6. You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova