They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
Boris PasternakRead
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses a desire to share deep insights and beauty discovered in the world.
Boris Pasternak describes an overwhelming urge to release the profound insights and beauty he perceives around him, likening it to an explosion. This metaphor suggests that the accumulation of knowledge and experiences is so vast and precious that it transcends mere expression, compelling the speaker to convey these wonders with passion and urgency.
Themes
InsightBeautyExpressionUnderstandingWorld
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about creativity, one might use this quote to inspire artists to share their visions.
More from Boris Pasternak
All quotes βEven 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.
Boris PasternakRead
He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.
Boris PasternakRead
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
Boris PasternakRead
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
Boris PasternakRead
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!
Boris PasternakRead
Similar quotes
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
Nassim Nicholas TalebRead
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
J. Paul GettyRead
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.
Thomas HardyRead
When awareness is completely balanced, communicating with the outside world is instantaneous and automatic. It happens with the touch of thought.
Deepak ChopraRead
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
John Of The CrossRead
Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.
Mark NepoRead