No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAKMother 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.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
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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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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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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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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
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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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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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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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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
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I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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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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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
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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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