One poem by this author begins by referring to a sign that says "Look out!
One poem by this author begins by referring to a sign that says "Look out! Wet paint", and then claims "my soul was blind, I have to pay the price." In another poem, an insomniac plays chess against the night, where a poplar is the king and a nightingale is his queen. This author of that poem "Marburg" compared "men with monocles" to serpents, and said they still complain when there's spring rain shattering itself like glass. This author of An Essay in Autobiography wrote that haphazard verses are the truest in a better-known poem which asks his listener to "get ink, shed tears...write of it, sob your heart out" while the "torrential slush that roars burns in the blackness of the spring." Those poems were included in collections like The Second Birth and Themes and Variations. FTP, name this author of the poetry collection My Sister, Life who also wrote a novel about the love of Lara and Yuri.  
One poem by this author begins by referring to a sign that says "Look out!
Boris (Leonidovich) Pasternak