learn to be still...
Natan Isaevich Altman
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– from Anna Akhmatova’s “Now Nobody Will Want to Listen...”
Now nobody will want to listen to songs,
the bitter days foretold come over the hill.
I tell you, song, the world has no more marvels,
do not shatter my heart, learn to be still.
– 1917
2 comments:
Gorgeous painting...and lines.
Thanks for the XJ Kennedy & Duchamps, too. I'm very interested in ekphrastic poetry.
Thanks for the view and read, Kate. Ekphrastic pieces are among my favorites - as reader and as writer.
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