“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace”: Anna Akhmatova

Posted June 23, 2015
Filed under: Authors, Interlitq, On this day in history, Poetry, Russia, The International Literary Quarterly, Writing, www.interlitq.wordpress.com | Tags: , , , , , , |
Akhmatova in 1922 (portrait by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin)

Akhmatova in 1922 (portrait by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin)

According to Anna Akhmatova, the Russian modernist poet who was born on this day in history, 23 June, 1889:

“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”

 

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