This is the Akhmatova who, in a friend’s words, could not bear to see another person’s suffering, though she bore her own without complaint.
–D. M. Thomas, Introduction to his translation of Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems

This is the Akhmatova who, in a friend’s words, could not bear to see another person’s suffering, though she bore her own without complaint.
–D. M. Thomas, Introduction to his translation of Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems