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HIS EVALUATION OF OTHER ARTISTS
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
"If they asked me to enumerate four poets whom I like the most in the world, including west, east, north and south, Pushkin would be among those four.
"I liked Pushkin consistently and continuously from age nineteen to sixty, because I fall in love consistently and continuously with my people, with all peoples, with my native land and with all lands and friends, and women.
"I learned a lot from Pushkin but what comes first is the art of never ageing."
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