15 Quotes by Boris Pasternak
- Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
- No bad man can be a good poet.
- No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
- That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
- Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
- What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
- As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
- Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
- 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.
- Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
- As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
- At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
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