“[With Dr. Zhivago] it seemed to me that it was my duty to make a statement about our epoch. I wanted to record the past and to honor the beautiful and sensitive aspects of the Russia of those years.”

Now the small buds are pronged
to the boughs like candle-butts.
Steaming April! The adolescent park 

Every Sunday they left a circus of dust behind them, 
as they poured out on the turnpike in stately, overcowded 
                                                                                           carriages,