Real tenderness can’t be confused, It’s quiet and can’t be … - Anna Akhmatova

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

Anna Akhmatova

Final Meeting: Selected Poetry of Anna Akhmatova · January 11, 2014 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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 • А́нна Андре́евна Ахма́това

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

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If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.

I’m not weeping, I’m not complaining,
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I drink to our demolished hose,
to all this wickedness,
to you, our loneliness together,
I raise my glass -

And to the dead-cold eyes,
the lie that has betrayed us,
the coarse, brutal world, the fact
that God has not saved us.

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