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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

Boris Pasternak

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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Burn Candle Deep Snow World
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
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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Moments Oneself
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Alone Isolation Moments Woman
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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Himself Modern Society Survival Writing
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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Believe Cruelty Grave Light Spirit Time
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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Forever I Love You One Liner Sanity Wild
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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Art Risk Sacrifice Spiritual Thinking
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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Blade Creation Poetry Rich Tears
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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Act End Escape Hypocrisy One Liner Order Planning
The unarmed power of naked truth.
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Arm Naked One Liner Power Truth
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
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
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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Enough Hate Kill Myself Yourself
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
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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Best Complication Expression Lyrics Poetry Possible Value

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