It’s unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently.
Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems (via thelovejournals) ←

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I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love.
Anna Akhmatova (via ignify) ←