To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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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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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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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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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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