Pushkin more or less shaped russian language as we speak it today. He defined russian literature and poetry for centuries ahead. Reading him is like returning home you never knew you had.
I stumbled across Pushkin's works because of my high school curriculum and I must say it was one of the most enjoyable pieces of literature I've read next to The Lord Of The Rings and The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, which needless to say were not part of my high school curriculum.
i've been writing a lot of poetry throughout the last four years. it's the only way i can write. i get so bored with writing the "infrastructure" of a longer narrative.
it's easier to play with language and story while writing as little possible. only writing what comes to mind and letting the story fill out in the reader's head instead of on the page.
