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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 Sergeevich Turgenev
Attribution: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883), Russian author. Letter, October 3, 1860, to K.N. Leontiev. Turgenev: Letters, ed. David Lowe (1983).

Categories: Author, Poetry And Poets, Psychology, Secrets

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