“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

Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

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Russian modernist poet 1889–1966

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