Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
BORIS PASTERNAKIt is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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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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