And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
Boris PasternakWhen a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
Boris PasternakIt 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.
Boris Pasternak