I have come to feel the way the Russian writer Boris Pasternak did when he wrote on January 15th 1960 three months after I became a Baha’i: “the artist starts to get to love his new design and it seems to him that the slowly developing work is larger and more important than he.” For me this ‘work’ is both my life and my writing.-Evgeny Pasternak, Boris Pasternak: The Tragic Years: 1930-1960, Collins Harvill, London, 1990, p.244.
