The unarmed power of naked truth.
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.
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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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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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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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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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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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The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.
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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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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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