Hi everyone!

I am helping my sister design her own Dostoevsky-inspired tattoo (I got mine a little while ago) and she is hoping to use the phrase (from the end of The Brothers Karamazov) "Not for nothing are we a poet."
We have a Russian edition of the book and managed to track down the phrase, but we're having some issues with the font, as some of the letters change when the text is italicized (which is how she wants the font to look). The font is pretty much perfect, it's only the doubt about the letters changing. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

the poet.JPG