Anna Akhmatova's best-known lines (with the poem)
The top 3 according to 63 votes from people: If only you knew from what rubbish / poems grow, knowing no shame. · "Only children love like that, / and only the first time." · If living, then in freedom; / if dying, then at home.. (Updated Nov 30, 2021.)
"I was with my people then", "If only you knew from what rubbish poems grow" and the glove on the wrong hand: the lines by Anna Akhmatova everyone knows, from her early poems of 1911 to Requiem and Native Land, with the title and year of each poem.
Automatically translated (original in Русский). See the original
Top 13
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If only you knew from what rubbish / poems grow, knowing no shame.
Poem "I have no use for odic hosts…", 1940.
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"Only children love like that, / and only the first time."
Poem "Your palms are burning…", 1915.
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If living, then in freedom; / if dying, then at home.
Poem "If living, then in freedom…", 1939.
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I was with my people then, / there where my people, unfortunately, were.
Requiem, epigraph (1961).
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I have a certain smile: / a barely visible movement of the lips.
Poem "I have a certain smile…", 1913.
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My breast grew so helplessly cold, / but my steps were light. / I pulled the glove for my left hand / onto my right.
Poem "Song of the Last Meeting", 1911.
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The strongest thing on earth is sorrow, / and longer-lasting still, the royal word.
Poem "The one whom people once called…", 1945.
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8
I live like a cuckoo in a clock, / I do not envy the birds in the woods.
Poem "I live like a cuckoo in a clock…", 1911.
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9
I have fun with you when you are drunk: / your stories make no sense.
Poem "I have fun with you when you are drunk…", 1911.
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10
Gasping, I cried: "It was all a joke. / If you go, I will die."
Poem "I clasped my hands under my dark veil…", 1911.
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11
But we lie down in it and become it, / and that is why we so freely call it ours.
Poem "Native Land", 1961.
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12
And there are no people in the world more tearless, / prouder and simpler than we are.
Poem "I am not with those who abandoned their land…", 1922.
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13
And we will keep you safe, Russian speech, / great Russian word.
Poem "Courage", 1942.
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