• Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

  Source: LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)

  Boris Pasternak
  Russian writer 1890-1960
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1. nightingales
2. crunching
3. creation
4. shoulder
5. blades
6. numbs

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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. by : Boris Pasternak

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