Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
BORIS PASTERNAKI 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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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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