| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6430 |
| QUOTATION: | Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge—they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Vissarion Belinsky (1810–1848), Russian revolutionary writer. Quoted in Nadine Gordimer, “The Essential Gesture,” The Essential Gesture, ed. Stephen Clingman (1988). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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