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Literature · Reflection

TURGENJEV ~ ON POETS

19 June 2011

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

Ivan Turgenjev

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Portrait of Turgenjev by Ilja Repin

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