Boris Pasternak
Russian Poet and Novelist
| Date of Birth | : | 10 Jan, 1890 |
| Date of Death | : | 30 May, 1960 |
| Place of Birth | : | Moscow, Russia |
| Profession | : | Poet, Composer, Novelist |
| Nationality | : | Russian, Soviet |
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.
Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences.
Quotes
Total 21 Quotes
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
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.
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
