Anna Akhmatova Quotes

"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."
- Anna Akhmatova
(Related: Death)

"Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free."
- Anna Akhmatova
(Related: Children, Songs, Word)

"I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars."
- Anna Akhmatova
(Related: Memory, Monument)

"It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace."
- Anna Akhmatova
(Related: Peace, Time)