A Model Poet + Her Appreciation: Akhmatova And Modigliani

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One goes in straightforward ways,
One in a circle roams:
Waits for a girl of his gone days,
Or for returning home.

But I do go -- and woe is there --
By a way nor straight, nor broad,
But into never and nowhere,
Like trains -- off the railroad.
Anna Akhmatova
One Goes In... 

 
Artist: 
Amadeo Modigliani

Model:
Anna Akhmatova


Modigliani was born 
on July 12, 1884.

He died in 1920. 

Akhmatova was born 
in 1887.

This is what the model
wrote about the artist:

He seemed to me encircled with a dense ring
of loneliness. 
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