Boris Pasternak Quotes


As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.


Citations

Pasternak, Boris. I Remember: Sketch for an Autobiography. Translated by David Magarshack, Pantheon Books, 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.