GEO Milev's glass eye watches us today from the gaping, unclosed graves of Bulgaria's spiritual and physical power. It warns that the human spirit is not subject to the outbursts of brute force. It reminds us of Vazov's words: "That which does not come out does not die out." He points out that poetry is indestructible when it is a cry and ecstasy, a storm and a glorious song of the human soul. Geo's terrifying eye is a symbol of Bulgaria's tragic national destiny and, through it, a kind of bottomless window into the immortal Bulgarian poetic tradition. The great, terrible, and at the same time sunny tradition that starts with Dobri Chintulov and Hristo Botev, passes through Ivan Vazov, Pencho Slaveykov, Peyo Yavorov, Dimcho Debelyanov, Hristo Smirnenski, Geo Milev, Nikola Vaptsarov, and reaches our days.