All my contemporaries — hundred-and-fivers or convicts — wi… - Anna Akhmatova

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All my contemporaries — hundred-and-fivers or convicts — will tell you how we lived
in barely sentient fear, raising
children for the executioner,
prison, or the torture chamber.

Anna Akhmatova

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Anna Andreevna Gorenko [А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко] (23 June {11 June O.S.} 1889 - 5 March 1966) was a Russian poet, known primarily by her pen name Anna Akhmatova [А́нна Ахма́това]. Her work was condemned and censored by Soviet authorities and she notably chose not to emigrate, but remained in Russia, acting as witness to the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism.

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Native Name: Анна Андреевна Ахматова

Alternative Names: Anna Andreyevna Gorenko • Anna Achmatova • Anna Ahmatova • Anna Gorenko • Anna Andreevna Gorenko • Anna Andreevna Akhmatova • Anna A. Ahmatova

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Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure.
The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping,
And all my thoughts are innocent and pure.

And you, my friends! So few of you remain
That you are dearer daily. I rejoice
In you. How short the road has become,
That once appeared the longest road of all.

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And think: "she wanted storms.

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