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“In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.”

Poetry Meaning Existentialism Being Aesthetics Singularity Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak

Book:Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

“The poet gives his whole life such a voluntarily steep incline that it is impossible for it to exist in the vertical line of biography where we expect to meet it. It is not to be found under his own name and must be sought under those of others, in the biographical columns of his followers. The more self-contained the individuality from which the life derives, the more collective, without any figurative speaking, is its story.”

Poet Autobiography Boris Pasternak

Book:Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and Other Writings

Source: Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and Other Writings