Boris Pasternak Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.”

“What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.”

“At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.”

“That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.”

“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.”

“You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.”

“Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.”

“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.”

“As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.”

“Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.”