• 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.

  Source: Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series (1963)

  Boris Pasternak
  Russian writer 1890-1960
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1. complicated
2. cumbersome
3. expressed
4. values
5. which
6. prose

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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. by : Boris Pasternak

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