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As a white stone in the well's cool deepness,
There lays in me one wonderful remembrance.
I am not able and don't want to miss this:
It is my torture and my utter gladness. I think, that he whose look will be directed
Into my eyes, at once will see it whole.
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Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed,
His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared.
His mother stood apart. No other looked
into her secret eyes. Nobody dared.
— 1940-1943
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Today I have so much to do:
I must kill 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.
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Today I have much work to do:
I must finally kill my memory,
I must, so my soul can turn to stone,
I must learn to live again.
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The word dropped like a stone
on my still living breast.
Confess: I was prepared,
am somehow ready for the test.
Anna Akhmatova
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Anna Akhmatova
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Born:
June 11, 1889
Died:
March 5, 1966
(aged 76)
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