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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 3184 |
| 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). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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