A candle burned on the table...

Boris Pasternak — a poet for whom words became the breath of life. His poems are born from a moment but are directed towards eternity: in them, the light of nature, the tension of thought, and the tremor of human feeling resonate.

The collection unites lyrics where the living sensation of the world is combined with a rare musicality of language. Pasternak sees poetry as a way to be — and thus his lines sound like a confession, like an inspired testimony to the beauty and fragility of existence.