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
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.
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
