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Literature · Reflection

ANNA AKHMATOVA ~ WAKING DREAMS

30 May 2013

Forgive me, that I manage badly,

Manage badly but live gloriously,

That I leave traces of myself in my songs,

That I appeared to you in waking dreams.”

― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems

Anna Akhmatova. Slepnevo.1914

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