They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
BORIS 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.
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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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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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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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Mother Russia is on the move, she can’t stand still, she’s restless and can’t find rest, she’s talking and she can’t stop.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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