"You, who was born..."

You, who was born for poetry’s creation,
Do not repeat the sayings of the ancients.
Though, maybe, our Poetry, itself,
Is just a single beautiful citation.

Anna Akhmatova
1556

Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, July, 2002
Edited by Tatiana Piotroff, September, 2002
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