"Two fountains from the same water': the tradition of East and West in Dato Magradze's poetic compositions is united and strengthened in the recovery of the past and the immersion in the contemporary. The culture of the homeland is as deeply rooted in him as his political commitment.

If it is already difficult to tackle a single collection, the difficulty is multiplied when one goes through a complex publication, such as this one, involving almost all his compositions.

Poetry in this Georgian writer is charged with a propulsive force already glimpsed by certain Romantics, such as Byron, Mameli, Berchet and Hugo, with the difference that he broadens the horizon to include the whole of humanity, proposing poetry as an instrument of human redemption.

Rarely, if ever, has writing in verse been entrusted with a more sublime task!