Tao Te Ching

“Why is this century worse than those others?
Maybe, because, in sadness and alarm,
It only touched the blackest of the ulcers,
But couldn't heal it in its span of time.”

— Anna Akhmatova Анна Ахматова 1889 – 1966 CE via Yevgeny Bonver
(Andreyevna Gorenko)
Russia's most loved female poet