How many poems did I not write? They hang in the air around… - Anna Akhmatova

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How many poems did I not write?
They hang in the air around me, a weird choir,
And some day
May suffocate me...

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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I've got no more tears or explanations.

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.

All's taken away: my love and my power.
The body, thrown into city it hates,
Finds no joy in the sunlight. With every hour
The blood grows colder in my veins.

How many poems did I not write? They hang in the air around me, a weird choir, And some day May suffocate me... - Anna Akhmatova

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