Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin. Diaries 1933-1940 (№ 321195)

Oh, how vulgarized French is "Look for the woman! "Meanwhile, this says that in the depths of all art only a woman, and if not her, then there is no art, no poetry, only prose. The woman is the hearth of art and the artist further away from the source, the more prosaic it.