As if some kind of truth is being preserved in poetry, raising the standard of our opinion and spoken word. People are fed up with hogwash they've been flooded with every day. The presence of so many people at evenings of poetry is a kind of criticism of our public word, degraded to an unbelievable degree. I don't think a small nation could have any other thing great but its culture. And that is by far the most important.
Politicians are the most famous people in our country.
And what kind of politicians they are and how great they are becomes obvious when you perceive the position of our nation. We, allegedly have top experts in economy, but I simply cannot think of top economists living in poor countries. But, on the other hand, there are great poets of small nations, because even small nations have their own languages where the essence and purpose of their existence are being expressed. A small nation could express its originality only in its culture. Everything else is more or less uneven.