Here you will find the Poem It is not seemly to be famous... of poet Boris Pasternak
It is not seemly to be famous: Celebrity does not exalt; There is no need to hoard your writings And to preserve them in a vault. To give your all-this is creation, And not-to deafen and eclipse. How shameful, when you have no meaning, To be on everybody's lips! Try not to live as a pretender, But so to manage your affairs That you are loved by wide expanses, And hear the call of future years. Leave blanks in life, not in your papers, And do not ever hesitate To pencil out whole chunks, whole chapters Of your existence, of your fate. Into obscurity retiring Try your development to hide, As autumn mist on early mornings Conceals the dreaming countryside. Another, step by step, will follow The living imprint of your feet; But you yourself must not distinguish Your victory from your defeat. And never for a single moment Betray your credo or pretend, But be alive-this only matters- Alive and burning to the end.
