• As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

    Anna Akhmatova: As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.
    Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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