Boris Pasternak Quotes


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.


Citations

Pasternak, Boris. "The Nobel Prize." The Poetry of Boris Pasternak, translated by George Reavey, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1959.

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Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak
  • Born: February 10, 1890
  • Died: May 30, 1960
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Poet, Writer

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak 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.