Song Morning Please Don't Come.
“Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.”
LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
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Borís Pasternak 40
Russian writer 1890–1960Related quotes

Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom

Source: Andre Cornelis (1886), Ch. 13
Context: I was suddenly carried away by rage to the point of losing all control over my frenzy. "Ah!" I cried, "since you will not do justice on yourself, die then, at once!" I stretched out my hand and seized the dagger which he had recently placed upon the table. He looked at me without flinching, or recoiling; indeed presenting his breast to me, as though to brave my childish rage. I was on his left bending down, and ready to spring. I saw his smile of contempt, and then with all my strength I struck him with the knife in the direction of the heart.
The blade entered his body to the hilt.
No sooner had I done this thing than I recoiled, wild with terror at the deed. He uttered a cry. His face was distorted with terrible agony, and he moved his right hand towards the wound, as though he would draw out the dagger. He looked at me, convulsed; I saw that he wanted to speak; his lips moved, but no sound issued from his mouth. The expression of a supreme effort passed into his eyes, he turned to the table, took a pen, dipped it into the inkstand, and traced two lines on a sheet of paper within his reach. He looked at me again, his lips moved once more, then he fell down like a log.
“I study the lives on a leaf: the little
Sleepers, numb nudgers in cold dimensions.”
"The Minimal," ll. 1-2
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)

“My head is full of fire
and grief and my tongue
runs wild, pierced
with shards of glass.”
Source: Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba

“Awakened at midnight
by the sound of the water jar
cracking from the ice”