Who is Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɨrˈnak]; 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) 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.

Pasternak is the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR, but the manuscript was ...
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Boris Pasternak Poems

  • Mary Magdalene Ii
    People clean their homes before the feast.
    Stepping from the bustle of the street
    I go down before Thee on my knees
    And anoint with myrrh Thy holy feet. ...
  • Autumn
    I have allowed my family to scatter,
    All those who were my dearest to depart,
    And once again an age-long loneliness
    Comes in to fill all nature and my heart. ...
  • Spasskoe
    In Spasskoe, unforgettable September sheds its leaves.
    Isnâ??t it time to close up the summer-house?
    Echo traps the thudding of axe-blows in the trees,
    and, past the fence, barters a herd-boyâ??s shout. ...
  • With Oars At Rest
    A boat is beating in the breast of the lake.
    Willows hang over, tickling and kissing
    Neckline and knuckles and rowlocks-O wait,
    This could have happened to anyone, listen! ...
  • Out Of Superstition
    A box of glazed sour fruit compact,
    My narrow room.
    And oh the grime of lodging rooms
    This side the tomb! ...
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Ghostlyfearz: “i love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.” ― doctor zhivago, boris pasternak
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Paul Landwehr: The simple beauty of insightful truths revealed through the poetry and prose of Pasternak is liken to a compass, a signpost pointing the way to transcendence from our basest human nature’s.
For me...he is a heroic voice; in a class with Rumi and Gibran, Rilke and Neruda: there are others, but you get the idea.

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We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
And the goal that we 're after is merely more cash.

We 're out for the money, the greenbacks and gold,
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