The idea that Pasternak knew these
lines, and had perhaps carried
them around in his head for twenty-
five years, really thrilled me,
more than any review I've ever read.
I think the parrotlike way in which
people say there is no 'communica-
tion' nowadays is rubbish really;
communication is having the faith
that if you do your utmost someone
somewhere does and will understand
this and sometime somewhere you
will know it.
Stephen Spender
1959
Matthew Spender
A House in St John's Wood
In search of my parents
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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