Quote by: Anna Akhmatova

How beautiful the tragic seems when it is beneath a mask, but when it appears so nakedly before me and... when I am so forcibly implicated... I don't know whether I care for it so much. Somehow or other it is as though I were torturing myself. ("Thirty-Three Abominations")


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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