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QUOTATION:Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust—of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold—smells of nothing.
ATTRIBUTION:Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet. “Wild Honey Smells of Freedom,” lines 1-4, as translated by Lenore Mayhew and William McNaughton (1943).
 
 
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