Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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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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How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
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