June 24, 2003

Wild Honey and Gold

Wild Honey and Gold

Today's Quotation from Today in Literature's Email Newsletter

Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust-of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold-smells of nothing....


- - Anna Akhmatova ("Wild Honey Smells of Freedom"), born this June 23,1889

Posted by Vanderleun at June 24, 2003 9:10 AM
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