Thursday, March 10, 2022

You will hear thunder and remember me. And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.



[...] the collective forgetting of nations is […] an unvoiced agreement to forget shame.

[...] memory and imagination not nuclear weapons are the great deterrents 

 

paragraphs: p.143, and quotes - Martha Gellhorn, The Face of War

title: The Complete Poems of Anna Ahkmatova

 


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