From the proverbs of Erkin Vahidov

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• The poem expresses the vital feelings born in the poet’s heart and thus captivates the reader’s heart. The poet cannot burn others without burning himself, he cannot give warmth to other souls without fire in the feelings of the heart. Without this magical flame, there is no benefit from any poetic silences, artistic means, mastery.

• The heaviest loss in this universe is the loss of one’s identity. Mankind lives in a world of contemplation and passion, spirit and faith. He is alive and whole with the faith in his heart, with confidence. Loss of identity is the loss of this world, the breaking of the pillars of human construction.

• There are those who say that talent is, first of all, taste, the ability to have good taste. Talent is a vast concept. If he had squeezed it into the definition, if it could have been limited to certain features, people would have created it by cultivating a talent that doesn’t exist. Gorky said that 99 percent of talent means work, not to mention that a person without innate talent can be a true poet or composer with hard work. Anyway, 99 is not a hundred. Water boils at one hundred degrees under normal conditions. Water heated to 99 degrees is not boiling water. In Persian, boiling is called "joshidan". That is to say. Poetry is also passionate. In order to be enthusiastic, you need that humble one percent, in addition to 99 percent - that is, innate talent.

• Those who aspire to the field of poetry out of curiosity about the name itself, its prestige and fame, without considering the "black work" of poetry, make a mistake. Often such a mistake is very costly. Both for the person who made the mistake and for the poetry. Therefore, "caring for young people" means not only to support them, but also to tell them the truth, to discourage them from making mistakes.

• In our literate age, it has become difficult to distinguish hobby from talent, especially in literature.

• For the reader, there is no age of the author, no title, no title. He always expresses his attitude to the author based on the lines he writes: either he puts it in his heart, or he forgets it, he condemns it to nothingness.

• In a life given to man once, he must live contentedly with his life, his past. There is no greater happiness than living without doing something against one's conscience. If every word you say, every deed you do is to your liking - that is the greatest happiness. On the contrary, if a person has a conflict between his inner aspirations, heart, beliefs, words and deeds, and his conscience fails to do what he is commanded to do, it is a great misfortune for him.

• The issue of devotion and belief in literature begins with concern for the future of the art of speech.

• In a competitive world, the book has many powerful, magical rivals.

• Whether we want the future of any nation depends on the level of teachers. We must never forget this fact.

• We have now completely got rid of the Soviet ideology, the literary criteria. The time has come to show our literature, especially our classical literature, in its entirety.

• Among the examples of our classical literature, there are sometimes such verses, verses, that the person who reads them feels that a wonderful change, purification has taken place in the heart and psyche. It is not surprising that these poems are born of waves of divine inspiration, not of ordinary moments of inspiration. Our children should not be deprived of these priceless and incomparable fruits.

• Poets and writers don’t go to weddings, they have no interest in appearing on TV, they pull themselves out of the mirror world. That's not true, of course. It is necessary to be visible to the hand, to be in the hand in order to arouse people's love for literature and books. After all, it is not for nothing that love is in the eye.

• We Uzbeks have a strong occupation. We are reluctant to express ourselves… Now we have to remove that term and use all forms of communication with the people. This is our duty to the time, to the Motherland.

• Literature has always been at the forefront of spirituality, and it should be so.

Arif Tolib prepared.
"Youth" magazine, 2016, issue 12