We must discover security within ourselves.
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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No bad man can be a good poet.
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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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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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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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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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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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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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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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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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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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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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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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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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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.
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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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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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