Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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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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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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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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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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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
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And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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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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