It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about 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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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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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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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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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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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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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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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