Boris Pasternak on word
Boris Pasternak74 quotes“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”
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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.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak We must discover security within ourselves.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak The unarmed power of naked truth.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak An unshared happiness is not happiness.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak 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 PasternakBoris Pasternak No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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