“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”
Italo Calvino book Invisible Cities
Source: Invisible Cities
“As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of dead leaves.”
Source: Poems of Akhmatova
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Russian modernist poet 1889–1966Related quotes
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