You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe unarmed power of naked truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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The unarmed power of naked 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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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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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