Maxim Gorky (Aleksey Peshkov, 1868 – 1936) Russian writer, public figure:
This world is not for the artists; it is too small and inconvenient for them, however, more honorable and heroic their role becomes. Dying of starvation and consumption, one Kazan Tatar man, poet, told very well, “From the iron cage of the world my young soul is flying away…”
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