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"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."
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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."
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"The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch."
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"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."
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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
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"A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk."
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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."
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"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
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"If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry."
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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."
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"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
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Explore more quotes by Boris Pasternak
"What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth."
Power
"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."
Woman
"No bad man can be a good poet."
Man
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."
Life
"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."
Poetry
"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."
Time
"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."
Life
"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."
World
"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."
Art
"In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will."
Community
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