Quote by: Anna Akhmatova

Son: Father, you are my father. You sired me. I have sired no one because I left the primordial. I left you, I studied, I suffered, and my visions were pure. Before me, my father, new horizons were opened. Father: Yes, I am your father. I sired you and nowhere did I go. Where I was in the beginning, there I remained. I dwell in the old home, my estate is as it was. I spawned, I lived with your mother. Then I lived with peasant women and girls, spawning. I surrounded myself with chickens, roosters, turkeys. My poultry lay dozens of eggs a day. But I studied nothing, never did I suffer. My horizons remain the same, oh just the same. These spaces, ancient, veritably Russian, assembled around us are all — all just the same. ("Adam")


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Author Bio


  • NameAnna Akhmatova
  • DescriptionRussian modernist poet
  • AliasesAnna Andreyevna Gorenko
  • BornJune 23, 1889
  • DiedMarch 5, 1966
  • CountryRussian Empire; Soviet Union
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer