Anna Akhmatova

• Freshness of words, simplicity of emotions..., by Donald Michael Thomas
  Freshness of words, simplicity of emotions, / If we lost these, would it not be as though / Blindness had stricken Fra Angelico, / Or an actor l...
• To lose the freshness of speech, the simplicity of feeling..., by A. S. Kline
  To lose the freshness of speech, the simplicity of feeling, / Isn’t that, for us, like a painter losing the power of sight, / Or an actor, their v...
• To lose the freshness of the words and sense, for us..., by Ilya Shambat
  To lose the freshness of the words and sense, for us, / Is it same as for an artist to lose vision, / Or for an actor — voice and motion, / Or f...
• Words’ ease and freshness — is it less..., by Andrey Kneller
  Words’ ease and freshness — is it less / For us than for an artist — vision, / For actors — voice and hand precision, / For beauties — beauty an...

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Anna Achmatowa (deutsch)

• Sind frische Worte, einfaches Gefühl..., Eric Boerner
  Sind frische Worte, einfaches Gefühl / Für uns nicht das, was für den Maler — Sehen, / Dem Schauspieler — die Stimme und Bewegung, / Der schönen...