I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
BORIS PASTERNAKI come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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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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If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
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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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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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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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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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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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