Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Quote by Boris Pasternak

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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of...

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of...

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you...

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you...

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible...

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible...

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life...

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life...

No bad man can be a good poet.

No bad man can be a good poet.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to...

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to...

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and...

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and...

And she finally stopped playing their song, when she realized she was dancing alone.

And she finally stopped playing their song, when she realized she was dancing alone.

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I...

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I...

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will...

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will...

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your...

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your...

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with...

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with...

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life...

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life...

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always...

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always...

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though...

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though...

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life...

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life...

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of...

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of...