Who is Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɨrˈnak]; 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, 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.

Pasternak is the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR, but the manuscript was ...
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Boris Pasternak Poems

• Mary Magdalene Ii
  People clean their homes before the feast.
  Stepping from the bustle of the street
  I go down before Thee on my knees
  And anoint with myrrh Thy holy feet. ...
• Autumn
  I have allowed my family to scatter,
  All those who were my dearest to depart,
  And once again an age-long loneliness
  Comes in to fill all nature and my heart. ...
• Spasskoe
  In Spasskoe, unforgettable September sheds its leaves.
  Isnâ??t it time to close up the summer-house?
  Echo traps the thudding of axe-blows in the trees,
  and, past the fence, barters a herd-boyâ??s shout. ...
• With Oars At Rest
  A boat is beating in the breast of the lake.
  Willows hang over, tickling and kissing
  Neckline and knuckles and rowlocks-O wait,
  This could have happened to anyone, listen! ...
• Out Of Superstition
  A box of glazed sour fruit compact,
  My narrow room.
  And oh the grime of lodging rooms
  This side the tomb! ...

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Boris Pasternak Quotes

• What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
• In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
• No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
• It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

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