"You, Who Were Born..."
1956
You, who were born for poetry’s creation,
Do not repeat the sayings of the ancients.
Though, maybe, our Poetry, itself,
Is just a single beautiful citation.
Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, July, 2002
Edited by Tatiana Piotroff, September, 2002
Edited by Hecate, 2007
I love Akhmatova's exortation to write original poetry, rather than to continue to recycle the themes and techinques already created.
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