Alexander Blok Quotes

Beauty Is Frightening," They Will Tell You -

Lazily You Will Arrange

A Spanish Shawl On Your Shoulders,

A Red Rose In Your Hair.


"Beauty Is Simple," They Will Tell You -

Clumsily With A Motley Shawl

You Will Cover A Child Up,

A Red Rose On The Floor.


But, Distractedly Heeding

All The Words Sounding Around You,

Sadly Lost In Thought

You Will Say About Yourself:


'I Am Neither Frightening Nor Simple;

I Am Not So Frightening, That I Would Simply

Kill; I Am Not So Simple

That I Do Not Know How Frightening Life Is.'

("For Anna Akhmatova")

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