“I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.”
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“I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love”
Source: The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941
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