What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
BORIS PASTERNAKImmensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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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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That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
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We must discover security within ourselves.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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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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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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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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