Boris Pasternak Quote

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.


Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series (1963) edited by George Plimpton.


It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have...

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have...

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have...

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have...