Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
BORIS PASTERNAKThat’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees 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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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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