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.
BORIS PASTERNAKYou 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.
BORIS PASTERNAKWe’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
BORIS PASTERNAKIn every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
BORIS PASTERNAKHe was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
BORIS PASTERNAKSalvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
BORIS PASTERNAKEven 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.
BORIS PASTERNAKI love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
BORIS PASTERNAKYou fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty – Which draws us together.
BORIS PASTERNAKOnly the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
BORIS PASTERNAKI 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.
BORIS PASTERNAKAll mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
BORIS PASTERNAKI have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
BORIS PASTERNAKWhat for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
BORIS PASTERNAKAs 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.
BORIS PASTERNAKAn unshared happiness is not happiness.
BORIS PASTERNAKThe unarmed power of naked truth.
BORIS PASTERNAK