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Anna AkhmatovaAnna Akhmatova

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And the stone word fell
On my still-living breast.
Never mind, I was ready.
I will manage somehow.Today I have so much to do:
I must **** memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again--Unless . . . Summer's ardent rustling
Is like a festival outside my window.
For a long time I've foreseen this
Brilliant day, deserted house.
Anna Akhmatova
About the poet

Anna Akhmatova

1889 - 1966/RussianAnna Akhmatova is a pseudonym of ANNA ANDREYEVNA GORENKO (b. June 11 [June 23, New Style], 1889, Bolshoy Fontan, near Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire--d. March 5, 1966, Domodedovo, near Moscow), Russian poet recognized at her death as the g…

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