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 PASTERNAKThe unarmed power of naked truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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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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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
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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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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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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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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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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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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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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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