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“There are the words that couldn’t be twice said …” by
Anna Akhmatova
🇷🇺
(
23 Jun 1889
–
5 Mar 1966
)
Translated from the Russian by & Yevgeny Bonver
There are the words that couldn’t be twice said,
He, who said once, spent out all his senses.
Only two things have never their end—
The heavens’ blue and the Creator’s mercy.