“The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time. It was impossible to… — Boris Pasternak Depression 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… — Boris Pasternak Compassion Copy Share Image
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments. — Boris Pasternak Earth 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… — Boris Pasternak Art 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 so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a… — Boris Pasternak Genuine 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… — Boris Pasternak Grass 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
If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the… — Boris Pasternak Electricity 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,… — Boris Pasternak Art 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… — Boris Pasternak Life Copy Share Image
“We’ve been lucky. The autumn happened to be dry and warm. We managed to dig the potatoes before the rain and cold… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death. — Boris Pasternak Borders Copy Share Image
“As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is… — Boris Pasternak Art Copy Share Image
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much… — Boris Pasternak Done Copy Share Image
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. — Boris Pasternak Understood Copy Share Image
“The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected… — Boris Pasternak Duplicity Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak Complicated Copy Share Image
“Ordinarily, people are anxious to test their theories in practice, to learn from experience, but those who wield power are so anxious… — Boris Pasternak Learn From Experience 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 Death Copy Share Image
I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field. — Boris Pasternak Crosses 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 Poetry Copy Share Image
