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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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Fools Generation Himself Talk Truth
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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Earth Enchant Herself Magic Wild
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
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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Arms Beautiful Bold Draw Fall Gift Goodness Togetherness Yourself
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.
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Discussion Necessary Poetry Simplicity Talk
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Existence Life Literature Poetry Stop
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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Existence Himself Inheritance Love People Remember
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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Deserve Immortal Life Loyalty Strong World
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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Hate Love Yourself
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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Himself Natural Tragedy
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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Calm Myself Reach Religious Stand World
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Faith Form Liberty Loyalty Lying
I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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Beautiful Fall Myself People Reveal Value Virtue
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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Modern Paint Rare Translation Writing

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