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It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past.
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.
The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life, their forms of expression become more complex.
The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.
Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.
The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes.
The public, regardless of its social origin, likes, above all, that which is easily accessible.
Talent
that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way
matures and grows in isolation.
From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations.
Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry tries to awaken them with a kiss, wherever they may be: in the air, in things, in human beings.
