Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Who does more for a nation--the one who makes a fuss about it or the one who, without thinking of it, raises… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Three years of changes, moves, uncertainties, upheavals; the war, the revolution; scenes of destruction, scenes of death, shelling, blown-up bridges, fires, ruins—all… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“There shall be no more death, Because we have already seen all that, Its old and we are tired of it, And… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Now, as never before, it was clear to him that art is always, ceaselessly, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on… — Boris Pasternak 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 Copy Share Image
How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is… — Boris Pasternak 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
“The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time. It was impossible to imagine that… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues… — Boris Pasternak 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 or retribution,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it.… — Boris Pasternak 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 you. I'll… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always compose it… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
