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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.

Boris Pasternak

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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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Beyond Country Death Equality Myself
You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Forever Myself Prison Yourself
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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Heaven Kissing Myself Teaching
No bad man can be a good poet.
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Bad Goodness Man One Liner Poet
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Disappoint Greatness Life Mom
Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
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Earth Freedom Love People Thinking Unique
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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