“... K. Balmont is rightfully considered one of the best Russian poets. Impulsive, enthusiastic and contagious, he enriched Russian poetry with a whole range of new feelings, images, and thoughts. The mottos thrown by him continue to live to this day. ...” (N. Gumilyov)
“... Above all, Balmont is a ‘new person.’ He came to the ‘new poetry’ not through conscious choice. He did not reject the ‘old’ art after rational criticism; he did not set himself the task of being an expression of a certain aesthetic. Balmont forges his verses, caring only that they be beautiful to his taste, interesting to his taste—and if his poetry belongs to ‘new’ art, then it happened regardless of his will. He simply tells his soul, but his soul is of those that only recently began to bloom on our land. That is the strength of Balmont’s poetry, all its vitality—though in that, too, lies its very helplessness. ...” (V. Bryusov)