Russian Poets

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“An enormously vast field lies between “God exists” and “there is no God.” The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)