Anna Akhmatova Quote

From childhood I have been afraid
of mummers. It always seemed
an extra shadow
without face or name
had slipped among them...


Poem without a Hero (1963)


From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...

From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...

From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...

From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...