He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.
“A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.”
“Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.”