Favorite Boris Pasternak Poem of Buvaisar Saitiev | Joe Rogan Experience
00:00:00.000 | - If I saw a satire, I would read Boris Barstynak,
00:00:03.300 | which is a famous Russian poet, won the Nobel Prize
00:00:06.440 | before every match, and he kind of captures that ethic.
00:00:09.520 | So this is the poem.
00:00:10.720 | I'll say it in Russian.
00:00:12.120 | - Okay. - And then in English.
00:00:13.640 | - Please. - Okay.
00:00:14.920 | (speaking in foreign language)
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00:00:24.640 | I know there's a bunch of Russian people
00:00:37.920 | that would appreciate that.
00:00:39.320 | The translation a bit crappy.
00:00:41.200 | It's very difficult to translate the Russian language,
00:00:43.280 | but it's, "The others, step by step, will follow,
00:00:47.360 | "the living imprint of your feet,
00:00:49.420 | "but you yourself must not distinguish
00:00:51.520 | "your victory from your defeat.
00:00:53.800 | "And never for a single moment betray your credo or pretend,
00:00:57.940 | "but be alive, only this matters,
00:01:00.640 | "alive and burning to the end."
00:01:02.980 | So this is the end of a poem that represents
00:01:06.600 | the fact that fame, most of the poem says that
00:01:10.880 | fame, recognition, money, none of that matters.
00:01:14.000 | The winning and losing, none of that matters.
00:01:16.520 | What matters is the purity of the art,
00:01:18.600 | just giving yourself completely over to the art.
00:01:21.680 | So like, others will write your story,
00:01:23.920 | others will tell whether you did good or bad,
00:01:26.100 | others will inspire using your story,
00:01:28.500 | but as the artist, so in the case of Pasternak,
00:01:31.640 | he's a poet, writer, wrote Dr. Zhivago,
00:01:35.920 | is the art, you should only think about the art
00:01:40.080 | and the purity of it and the love of it.
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