Art always serve beauty, and beauty is the joy of processing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life. A stronger word for it.
I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entreched routine. It is disgusting.
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
Quotes by Boris Pasternak.
When 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.
The whole wide world is a cathedral;
I stand inside, the air is calm,
And from afar at times there reaches
My ear the echo of a psalm.
and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
Surprise is greatest gift which life can grant us.
You and I. It’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together. To see if we know what we were taught.
How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life. A stronger word for it.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, that is our duty in misfortune.
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.