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 PASTERNAK
BORIS PASTERNAK
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Boris Pasternak74 quotes“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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Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak 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.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak 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 PasternakBoris Pasternak Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak Failure to love is almost like murder.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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