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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 Turgenev
Doe, Speak, Can Do
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1983). “First love”, Viking Adult
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.