Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.
Anna AkhmatovaRead
If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.
Interpretation
This quote expresses how deeply someone values another person, comparing them to a source of joy and inspiration.
In this quote, Anna Akhmatova beautifully illustrates the profound impact that a loved one can have on one's emotional state. By likening the beloved to music, she conveys that their presence brings endless joy and uplifts her spirits, suggesting that love has the power to transform our mood and outlook on life.
In practice
In a wedding speech to express love and connection.
Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.
And you know, I agree to everything: I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy, Darkness will be light and sin lovely.
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.
I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.
You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.
There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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