Author: Anna Akhmatova

Cited by

• Tonya Hurley (1)
  • IN: Passionaries (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
    FROM: "You Will Hear Thunder", (None), Poem, Ukraine / Russia
• Lesley Milne (1)
  • IN: Mikhail, Bulgakov: A Critical Biography (1990) Non-Fiction, Biography, British
    EPIGRAPH: No one could joke like (ty kak nikto shutil)
    FROM: To the Memory of M. B-v, (None), NULL, Russia
• Leonardo Padura (1)
  • IN: The Man Who Loved Dogs (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This happened when only the dead were smiling Glad to have found their resting place at last. .
    FROM: Requiem, (1963), Poem, Russia
• Peter Matthiessen (1)
  • IN: In Paradise (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold. Death's great black wing scrapes the air, Misery gnaws to the bone. Why then do we not despair? By day, from the surrounding woods, cherries blow summer into town; at night the deep transparent skies glitter with new galaxies. And the miraculous comes so close to the ruined dirty houses -- something not known to anyone at all But wild in our breasts for centuries.
    FROM: "Everything Is Plundered...", (1921), Poem, Russia
• Catherynne Valente (1)
  • IN: Deathless (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From the year nineteen forty I look out on everything as if from a high tower As if bidding farewell To that from which I long ago parted. As if crossing myself And descending beneath dark arches
    FROM: Poem Without a Hero, (1967), Poem, Russia
• Jorge Volpi (1)
  • IN: Season of Ash (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: For them have I woven this vast shroud Out of the sad words I heard from them.
    FROM: Requiem, (1963), Poem, Russia
• Elliot Perlman (1)
  • IN: The Street Sweeper (2011) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Mountains bow down to this grief... But hope keeps singing from afar.
    FROM: Requiem, (1963), Poem, Russia
• Kachi A. Ozumba (1)
  • IN: The Shadow of a Smile (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Beside me, in the queue, there was a woman with blue lips. She had, of course, never heard of me; but she suddenly came out of that trance so common to us all and whispered in my ear (everybody spoke in whispers there): "Can you describe this?" And I said: "Yes, I can." And then something like the shadow of a smile crossed what had once been her face.
    FROM: Requiem, (1963), Poem, Russia
• Anne LeClaire (1)
  • IN: The Law of Bound Hearts (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So much to do today: kill memory, kill pain, turn heart into stone, and yet...
    FROM: Requiem, (1963), Poem, Russia
• Chris Greenhalgh (1)
  • IN: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And behind it will come a man Who won't become my husband, yet together We shall deserve such things That the twentieth century shall stand agape.
    FROM: Dedicatory Poems, (1969), Poem, Ukraine
• Dan Chaon (1)
  • IN: Await Your Reply (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.
    FROM: Northern Elegies, (1944), Book, Ukraine/Russia