Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it. — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. — Boris Pasternak Inspirational Copy Share Image
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. — Boris Pasternak Fool Copy Share Image
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments. — Boris Pasternak Earth Copy Share Image
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them. — Boris Pasternak Faithfulness Copy Share Image
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. — Boris Pasternak Erupt Copy Share Image
He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how… — Boris Pasternak Cold Copy Share Image
“Ma che cos’è la storia? È un dar principio a lavori secolari per riuscire a poco a poco a risolvere il mistero… — Boris Pasternak Amor Copy Share Image
“Thou hast spread Thy arms to embrace far too many, Flinging Thy hands out till they reach the ends of the crossbeam.” — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“In the waiting room, ladies in a picturesque group surrounded a table with magazines. They stood, sat, or half reclined in the… — Boris Pasternak Celebrity culture Copy Share Image
I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the… — Boris Pasternak Beast Copy Share Image
As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself... — Boris Pasternak Identity Copy Share Image
What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists… — Boris Pasternak Atheism Copy Share Image
“Man in other people is man’s soul. That is what you are, that is what your conscience breathed, relished, was nourished by… — Boris Pasternak Death Copy Share Image
Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine. It is not revolutions and… — Boris Pasternak Better day Copy Share Image
He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great… — Boris Pasternak Children Copy Share Image
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail… — Boris Pasternak Beast Copy Share Image
“And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating… — Boris Pasternak Heart Copy Share Image
It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“For as long as he could remember he had never ceased to wonder why, having arms and legs like everyone else, and… — Boris Pasternak Life Copy Share Image
“It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life could… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
“Will you feel pain? Do the tissues feel their disintegration? In other words, what will happen to your consciousness? But what is… — Boris Pasternak Consciousness Copy Share Image
“The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain.… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
“Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
“Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs. They… — Boris Pasternak Love Copy Share Image
“I'll stay with you a little, my unforgettable delight, for as long as my arms and my hands and my lips remember… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“February Boris Pasternak It's February. Get ink. Weep. Write the heart out about it, sing Another song of February While raucous slush… — Boris Pasternak Flower Copy Share Image