Boris Pasternak

Quotes

• “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two ni...”
• “And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genui...”
• “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 ...”
• “Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words somet...”