Anna Akhmatova Quotes

We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and - our former riches.

Anna Akhmatova

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  Anna Akhmatova
  • Great
  • God
  • Generosity