Russian Poet

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“In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little—somebody who is obsessed by Making.”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)