Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.

- Anna Akhmatova

Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.

- Anna Akhmatova

I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

- Anna Akhmatova

There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.

- Anna Akhmatova

My shadow serves as the friend I crave

- Anna Akhmatova

You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.

- Anna Akhmatova

You do not know just what you've been forgiven.

- Anna Akhmatova

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

- Anna Akhmatova

It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.

- Anna Akhmatova