You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe 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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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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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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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.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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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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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 bad man can be a good poet.
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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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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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