Russia's greatest 20th-century poet who bore witness to Stalinist terror in Requiem while maintaining an unwavering devotion to truth and artistic integrity.
"I have learned how faces fall to bone, how under the eyelids terror lurks."
"But I warn you, I am living for the last time."
"I can't tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again."
I have learned how faces fall to bone, how under the eyelids terror lurks.
— Anna Akhmatova
But I warn you, I am living for the last time.
I can't tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.
"I can't tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is ..."
