Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternakwas a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderon and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 February 1890
CountryRussian Federation
life adversity people
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
spiritual art sacrifice
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
auras isolation moments
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
romantic couple kissing
You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
time believe light
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.
death art creating-life
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
artist discovery overwhelmed
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
farewell party secret
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
anticipation security
We must discover security within ourselves.
enchantment earth make-sense
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
inspirational circles shining
Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine. It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days, but revelations, and lavishness of someone's soul inspired, and ablaze.
remember-you remembers-you despair
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
doctors dear-god stomach
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
grateful proud touched
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.