“Don’t repeat—your soul is rich—
That which has been said before,
But perhaps poetry itself—
Is a single splendid quotation.”
That which has been said before,
But perhaps poetry itself—
Is a single splendid quotation.”
—Anna Akhmatova, from the Cycle “Secrets of the Crafts”, in The Complete Poems (translated by J. Hemschemeyer)
(Source: growing-orbits)