Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn. – Anna Akhmatova
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children’s children, pure on their tongues, and free. – Anna Akhmatova
I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed… here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars. – Anna Akhmatova
