The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
BORIS PASTERNAKPoetry 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.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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The unarmed power of naked truth.
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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.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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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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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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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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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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