"The poet can be national by painting. Even a completely foreign world, provided only that he looks at this world with the eyes of his national element, with the eyes of his entire people, and feels and speaks so that his countrymen believe that they are and speak themselves.
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Nikolai Vasilyevich GogolAll Translations
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The poet can be national by painting. Even a completely foreign world, provided only that he looks at this world with the eyes of his national element, with the eyes of his entire people, and feels and speaks so that his countrymen believe that they are and speak themselves.
""Poetul poate fi național zugrăvind. Chiar o lume cu totul străină, cu condiția numai de a privi această lume cu ochii stihiei sale naționale, cu ochii întregului său popor, de a simți și a vorbi astfel încât compatrioții săi să creadă că sunt și vorbesc chiar ei."