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 PASTERNAKOh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
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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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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about 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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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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I 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.
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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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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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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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An unshared happiness is not happiness.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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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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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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Failure to love is almost like murder.
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