I’ve ceased to smile long ago,

The bitter winds now chill my lips,

Another hope was just let go,

Another song was added since.

Against my will …

Because love’s silence for the soul

Is too unbearably immense.

– Anna Akhmatova – White Flock

We will not drink from the same cup –

Neither water nor sweet wine is ours,

We will not kiss as the sun goes up

Or gaze at the night, on the sill, for hours.

I breathe by the moon, you – by the sun

– Anna Akhmatova –

I sent my Soul through the Invisible,

Some letter of that After-life to spell:

And by and by my Soul Return’d to me,

And Answer’d: ‘I Myself am Heav’n and Hell

– Omar Khayyám –

Ph : Maja Topcagic