Anna Akhmatova

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

- Anna Akhmatova

"This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And the sunset itself on such waves of ether That I just can't comprehend Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world, Or the mystery of mysteries in me again."

- Anna Akhmatova