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Poetry, forgive the Lord, must be foolish, said one of the smartest, if not the smartest Russian man - Pushkin. And yet continued to write poems and in verses invested the portion of nonsense, without which, as food without salt, poetry becomes nasty. It can, it means, if you wish, pretend to be stupid, and so pretend to make all the preliminary stupidity for the real one. It seems to me more: you can pretend to both smartly, and also pretend to be very good, so no one will come to the head of simulation here. And it must be said that most writers, in the opposite of Pushkin, have to do not so much about it seems to seem stupid as to seem smart. And the facts show that their efforts are crowned with brilliant success. It must be the essence of the writing talent is to artfully make in mind, nobility, beauty, courage, etc. After all, smart, noble and bold people are so few, and so many talented writers. Even sincerity is fake in such a way that the most experienced eye is easily misleading. Pushkin, maybe, because it captures us that he doesn"t want to be smart that he knows how little proc. In practical life, of course, you want not want, you need to obey the omen of the mind. The only thing, although considerable, of course, the advantage of poetry, that she does not oblige anyone to think about what he says. Say that the mind comes, it would be only folding and exciting