Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
From Boris Pasternak
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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.
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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.
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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