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No bad man can be a good poet.

Boris Pasternak

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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Angel Flame Shadow Temptation
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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Deserve Immortal Life Loyalty Strong World
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Art Risk Sacrifice Spiritual Thinking
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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Hate Love Yourself
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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Change Figure Life Principle
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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Modern Paint Rare Translation Writing
You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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Heaven Kissing Myself Teaching
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness Share
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
No bad man can be a good poet.
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Bad Goodness Man One Liner Poet
During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Existence Life Literature Poetry Stop
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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Deep Forever One Liner Prison Time
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Adventure Greatness Hero Madness Woman
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Alive Hurt Thinking
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.
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Compassionate Feeling Object Ourselves Strong Victim
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch

No bad man can be a good poet.

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