Boris Leonidovich Pasternak:
(Moscow, 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – Peredelkino, 30 May 1960).
Russian poet, writer and composer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958.
February, take ink and weep. Write February as you’re sobbing, while black spring burns deep through the slush and throbbing.
