Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak was a Soviet Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator.

In his native Russian, Pasternak’s first book of poems, My Sister, Life (1917), is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language.

Pasternak’s translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderon de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences.

Date of birth:
10th February, 1890
Date of death:
30th May, 1960
"Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it."
― Boris Pasternak
Topic(s): Marriage
"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."
― Boris Pasternak
Topic(s): Art
"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."
― Boris Pasternak
Topic(s): Poetry
"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."
― Boris Pasternak
Topic(s): Beauty
"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."
― Boris Pasternak
Topic(s): Art
"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."
― Boris Pasternak
Topic(s): Beauty

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