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.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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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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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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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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 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.
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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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