That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
IVAN TURGENEVA 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Love isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
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Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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