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.
BORIS PASTERNAKHe comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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You 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.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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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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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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