A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
BORIS PASTERNAKYou 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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