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Pontificating
Remembering is another form of suffering. Remembering that success is a journey, not a destination, what shall I have in mind? The past, the present, or the future? Keep your eyes on the goals. There have not been set yet. That is the worst part – I don’t know what exactly I want, but [...]
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
February
February. Get ink, shed tears.
Write of it, sob your heart out, sing,
While torrential slush that roars
Burns in the blackness of the spring.
Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas,
Race through the noise of bells and wheels
To where the ink and all you grieving
Are muffled when the rain shower falls.
To where, like pears [...]
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
Winter’s Night
Blizzards were blowing everywhere
Throughout the land.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.
As midgets in the summer fly
Towards a flame,
The snowflakes from the yard swarmed to
The window pane.
And, on the glass, bright snowy rings
And arrows formed.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.
And on the white illumined ceiling
Shadows were cast,
As [...]
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
A song from the film “Fate’s Irony”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRbmBXywH4
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There’ll be no one in the house
Save for twilight. All alone,
Winter’s day seen in the space that’s
Made by curtains left undrawn.
Only flash-past of the wet white
Snowflake clusters, glimpsed and gone.
Only roofs and snows, and save for
Roofs and snow – no one at home.
Once more, frost [...]
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