The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say. BORIS PASTERNAK
It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned. BORIS PASTERNAK Candle
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. BORIS PASTERNAK Remark
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. BORIS PASTERNAK Myth
Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees’ hypocrisy. BORIS PASTERNAK EndEscapeHypocrisyOrder
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 PASTERNAK Discussion
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing. BORIS PASTERNAK
Even 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 PASTERNAK CrueltyGrave
