“... K. Balmont is rightfully considered one of the best Russian poets. Impetuous, captivating and captivating, he enriched Russian poetry with a whole range of new feelings, images and thoughts. The mottos he threw down continue to live to this day. ..." (N. Gumilyov) "... Balmont is, first of all, a “new man.” He did not come to “new poetry” through a conscious choice. He did not reject the “old” art after rational criticism; he did not set himself the task of being an exponent of a certain aesthetics. Balmont forges his poems, caring only that they are beautiful in his own way, interesting in his own way, and if his poetry belongs to the “new” art, then this happened against his will. He simply tells his soul, but his soul is one of those that have only recently begun to bloom on our land. This is the whole strength of Balmont’s poetry, all its vitality, although this is all its powerlessness. ..." (V. Bryusov)