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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 Turgenev
Roots, Secret, Poet
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.545, Northwestern University Press
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.