The poet should be beautiful like God

Olzhas Suleimenov is an outstanding Kazakh poet, playwright and philologist. His poetry is distinguished by expressiveness of images, subtle humor, philosophical, sincerity of statement. The focus of the poet is the most important topics: the roots of life, the national world, the freedom of creativity, the fate of the artist, time and being. The son of an executed commander, he was adopted by books. They raised him no less than the parent of all Kazakhs - the steppe. He not only became the spiritual aristocrat of the steppe, showing how it was in her best people who did not even know foreign languages, but who knew how to talk with a hobby or a passage, with their horses, who understood them with a semi-word. He showed himself what the Kazakhs of the World flight can be, what he himself became, possessing thinking not only of narrow -planetary, but zemshar. Evgeny Yevtushenko