No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAKArt is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
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