Akhmatova Requiem Quotes & Sayings

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible. — Voltaire

She had tried running away from her problems but now knew she would have to face them. — Paul Levine

Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America. — Campbell McGrath

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring. — John Wesley

We don't sail because the sea is there. We sail because there's a harbour. We don't start by heading for distant shores. We seek protection first. — Carsten Jensen

Words, Isobel, have always held the dangerous power to conjure things into being. Remember that. — Kelly Creagh

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. — Abraham Lincoln

Rainer Maria Rilke sacrificed everything
For his art he dedicated himself
To the Great Work

I admired his single-mindedness
All through my twenties
I argued his case

Now I think he was a jerk
For skipping his daughter's wedding
For fear of losing his focus

He believed in the ancient enmity
Between daily life and the highest work
Or Ruth and the Duino Elegies

It is probably a middle-class prejudice
Of mine to think that Anna Akhmatova
Should have raised her son Lev

Instead of dumping him on her husband's mom
Motherhood is a bright torture she confessed
I was not worthy of it

Lev never considered it sufficient
For her to stand outside his prison
Month after month clutching packages

And composing Requiem for the masses — Edward Hirsch

That great dust-heap called 'history'. — Augustine Birrell

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised. — Shuji Nakamura

My kind has become the the centerpiece for horror stories and legends across the globe, and society has labeled the vampire as a monster, but the creature peering from beneath the fog misted top hat that night was a monster that would surpass the wildest imaginations of the most skilled story tellers. And he was a human being. — Wayne Barrett

[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation. — Harriet Martineau

What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power. — Frederick Lenz