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There are sensitive natures who are no less excited than talented poets, but their excitement does not give rise to poetic ideas. It is not a question of the desire to compose, which can also overshadow those completely devoid of talent, but it is very distantly related to the artistic idea. In order for a poetic idea to arise, talent is needed. Talent, so to speak, is an innate mastery, the bearers of which must thank nature. And the greater the talent, the more condensed, more concentrated this potential mastery is. The young Pushkin wrote poems whose mastery would be envied by even great poets in their most mature creative age. Pushkin is a worldly genius. But our Smirnensky also created unfading poetic works in his early youth. By the way, he died almost a teenager, and amazes us with his poetic virtuosity. Another young man, Dimcho Debelyanov, created perfect poems before Smirnensky. Even earlier, the unknown Peyu Kracholov amazed such strict literary connoisseurs as Dr. K. Krastev and Pencho Slaveykov, who simply wondered how this boy from the backwater province managed to achieve such heights of poetic skill in "Calliope". And yet, poets usually do not write their most perfect works at the beginning of their creative path. And brilliant poets develop, acquire mastery through schooling from their great predecessors, through a lot of work, through enriching their life experience, etc. A poet is one - says Gogol - who is more capable than others of feeling the beauty of creation" ("Russian Writers on Literary Work", Leningrad, 1954, vol. I, p. 477). This feeling for the beauty of the world is undoubtedly strengthened in creative practice, which forces the poet to seek the beautiful, the wonderful in life and truthfully depict it, to sing it. The poet, like any artist, is gifted by nature with strong observation and impressionability. And they are sharpened in the process of work.