The equality of the gift of the soul and the verb - that’s the poet.

Marina Tsvetaeva...

She is called a poet of the Silver Age, but Marina Tsvetaeva was not part of any group, did not support any program and did not fit into the framework of any literary movement. The power of her poetic gift, the sharpness and strength of feeling, the piercing accuracy of images and the rare musicality of form allow us to consider her a separate, self-sufficient phenomenon of the 20th century.“All the most important laws of poetry are instinctively guessed here,” wrote Nikolai Gumilyov about the first collection of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva. “You can hear the beat of real, not bookish life in it,” noted the poet and critic Vladimir Narbut. And Vladislav Khodasevich, speaking about Tsvetaeva’s desire for “not artistic, but rather psychological authenticity,” concludes: “Her poetry strives to become a diary...”In his program, Yakov Rafalson included not only poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, including later works (“Poem of the Mountain,” “Longing for the Motherland!”, cycle “Table,” etc.), but also fragments from her notes and letters.No, this is not the case when genius is simple. The reader or listener requires the most serious mental work, unflagging attention and absolute readiness for co-creation. But for those who accept the challenge and dare to answer “the demand of faith and the request of love,” a truly precious gift awaits...