Anna Akhmatova

"Where is the earth? Where is the sky? Where is God?"

"You are cunning and cruel - that's your charm."

"I will not change my ways to suit you."

"And they beat me, but I did not fall."

"The words we use shape the reality we perceive."

"In the human heart there is a constant struggle between the call of God and the call of the world."

"Beauty is terrible and strange, beauty is not soothing like you thought."

"I have made my bed on the side of disaster."

"Time is both friend and enemy to those who write."

"I always knew that a moment would come when words fail you."

"Love is either the shrinking of the soul or its temporary salvation."

"Your voice, precious and torn, still sounds in the December frost."

"I am not afraid of the journey, only that I will forget why I set out."

"In this moment we are all connected through suffering."

"The artist must bear witness to the times in which he lives."

"I know that grief is the price of love."

"My land is not a place, it is a state of the soul."

"You cannot call yourself a poet if you have not suffered."

"The most important skill is knowing how to listen."

"I have learned to love the questions more than the answers."

"In war, truth is the first casualty."

"A woman's heart is deeper than the sea."

"I will remember everything, and forgive nothing."

"The weight of words can break a human heart."

"I came into this world to upset the balance of things."

"Do not cry for me - I have already paid my debt to fate."

"The true measure of a person is what they do in the dark."

"I have buried three husbands and yet I remain standing."

"Words are the only immortality we possess."

"In solitude, we find ourselves."