I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
BORIS PASTERNAKI used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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