Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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Art 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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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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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